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– Aportage (Carry Me) –

Hear me singing in the subway tunnels,
take me dancing in the lower streets.
Give me one last turn about my past,
before I fall between the cracks of a former smile.

You have divided my path
from more central destinations.
The intensity of your love along the way
was like a thoroughfare through me,
my journey interrupted by paths of desire,
sharper edges through the green
on which we cut our corners.

Those paths are more
than a space well worn
where we have traveled together
across that same divide.
It marks the nature of our journeys,
and all the detours that we have taken
to reach the other side.

As I look back at the map
of those desire paths,
I trace the red line radius
marking the boundary of our journeys,
and for all of the distance
that has come between us,
I have at last come to understand
that you have traveled farther than I ever can.

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