Shapeshifter

I remember the skies and the sand
 I remember your face and your lovely hand
 And words poured out on a dusty land
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 And gravity comes to us all
 I feel the engine stall
 I feel us start to fall
 Blue over you
 And lose all to you
 The time expanding
 And lose all ascent
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 A signal that no one hears
 The surface blurs and the ocean nears
 Sadness bursting disappears
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 Waves that lift us and toss
 A promise made of enduring loss
 And you speak only of minnows and moss
 Blue over me
 And lose all to me
 The time expanding
 And lose all ascent
 While you let the water in
 I sleep and feel near again
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 While you let the water in
 I dreamt again that I couldn't swim
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 Finding myself past the half-life of me
 Lost in the weeds, tugging at sleeves
 A dreadful despair of a color that pales to describe
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 So taking the form of a winged butterfly
 And lifting myself through a sliver of white
 The lazy path to the fence row and the flowers within
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 Needing some speed, I became then a fawn
 Feeling the dangers of the quickening dawn
 I leapt over the fence and raced across the softening ground
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 And after some time I discovered a pool
 Water was clear where the lilies were blue
 I drank until full and waited to no ill effect
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 Seeing the sky I became then a bird
 A swallow that sped through the warm thinning air
 To heights unimagined, 'til loneliness turned back its hold
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 Where is the place for what's all left of me?
 Where do we keep the things we don't need?
 Where is the solace promised me in voices before?
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 Suddenly me just here back on the land
 Reaching for you, finding your hand