Stay Beside.

You get the headache
when you wake
too early
or too late.

Awakening your soul
to the wrong things
at the wrong time

messes everything up.

I don't wish to walk ahead
I don't want to lag behind

I just want to
stay beside.

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There are sixty queens,
and eighty concubines,
and virgins without number

but there is only one.

Who is he,
clear as the sun,
strong as the mountain?

Until it pleases,

will not stir up
nor
awaken love.

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