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I am on fire, I am burning bright

I am haloed softly by the sweet decay of light.

I am breathing memory, I am laying stone

I am beside the world tonight, and I am on my own.

I am blowing dust and feathers, I am carving dreams

I am lost in mindless wonder, I am tattered at the seams.

I am blinking in the twilight, I am flying free

I am yours and I am mine and together we shall be.



Unknown

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow-

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.



Edgar Allan Poe

No mortal thing enthralled these longing eyes

When perfect peace in thy fair face I found;

But far within, where all is holy ground,

My soul felt Love, her comrade of the skies:

For she was born with God in Paradise;

Nor all the shows of beauty shed around

This fair false world her wings to earth have bound:

Unto the Love of Loves aloft she flies.

Nay, things that suffer death, quench not the fire

Of deathless spirits; nor eternity

Serves sordid Time, that withers all things rare.

Not love but lawless impulse is desire:

That slays the soul; our love makes still more fair

Our friends on earth, fairer in death on high.



by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)