Intoxication

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Title: Intoxication
By: JJ Persis


Take back all my drunken nights, and give me just one night of intoxication from you.
Take back all my years, and give me just one night of life with you.

Amuse me, choose me, don’t let your heart refuse me.
Protect me, select me, never let your mind forget me.

One minute. One night. A memory for every tear.
One glance. One smile. Nothing to ever fear.

Leave your fingerprints all over my soul;
Let the entire world know that you made me whole.

For every minute that I miss, I’m living in your absence.
For every heartbeat that skips, I’m breathing unconscious.

Every kindness from you grew from the Silk Road.
Every hello you said was as if it were a new word.

One rose from you came with a dozen thorns;
They were secrets of my future and the past I would mourn.

For what is life, without eyes that judge you?
For what is love, without a heart to hurt you?





Copyright © 2012 JJ Persis. All Rights Reserved.





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