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the second promise

Lio Fenwick

Villanelle · Love · Time

i would learn you again in any life,begin from nothing, from the first cold light —even the dark has agreed to keep your name.

they say the universe forgets. that's fine.i'll teach it. i'll say you until it's true.i would learn you again in any life.

the way you turned, that first impossible time,is written now in something older than me —even the dark has agreed to keep your name.

let the years take the house, the coat, the wine,the small warm proofs that any of it was real.i would learn you again in any life.

and if i wake as no one, with no mindto hold you in, some animal will stillknow: even the dark has agreed to keep your name.

so go ahead and end us. i don't mind.i've hidden us somewhere the end can't reach.i would learn you again in any life.even the dark has agreed to keep your name.

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