# Gaki (poem)

Author: Dwale
Tags: Poem, Poetry

Tried something new with this one. I hope you will enjoy it.

Still waiting for a taste of something true  
In the maiden grass, chasing the fireflies,  
Thinking back on the last time you heard me  
Drink dew like a hungry ghost in the night.  
Oh, would that my shuttered words could grow wings  
And search this whole breadth of grudging country.  
Instead, struggling long for a jagged breath,  
My songs choke and fall, and drown in my chest.  
Iron ropes, my wrists and ankles now are  
Full of wire splinters. My throat is too thin  
To tell your worth aloud. But, could I view  
Your moonlit skin, it would scorch my soul to cinders.

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