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                <text>Lawrence Catania</text>
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              <text>Blinding, colliding sparks,&#13;
we bind the light and rule the dark. ~LArry</text>
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              <text>Blinding, colliding sparks,&#13;
we bind the light and rule the dark. ~LArry&#13;
&#13;
Waiting a long time,&#13;
across the quiet, drifting days,&#13;
your heart has echoed,&#13;
silent nights and winding ways—&#13;
&#13;
Know that my energy is clear,&#13;
unshaken by the passing time,&#13;
a steady pulse, a silent sphere,&#13;
a quiet truth, a lasting rhyme.&#13;
&#13;
No rush of wind, no turn of tide&#13;
could make this steady spirit stray from its stride;&#13;
what is meant, will abide,&#13;
and meet where shadows play and lie.&#13;
&#13;
Shadows deep, my place I keep,&#13;
centuries unwind, outlines form a face,&#13;
they seek a spark upon a larks flight.&#13;
&#13;
Waiting just as long,&#13;
step the veil, take my hand;&#13;
silence speaks a sudden song&#13;
no ordinary heart could withstand.&#13;
&#13;
The dark, my energy&#13;
is burning potent, fierce, and pure—&#13;
a wild, magnetic alchemy&#13;
that only two can long endure.&#13;
&#13;
Look close my sightless eyes,&#13;
where hidden fires wake and rise;&#13;
they hold truths we dare not speak,&#13;
the passionate release you do so seek,&#13;
and promise secrets, deep and blind,&#13;
as only my own gaze can bind.&#13;
&#13;
My eyes reflect an ancient fire&#13;
of a soul kept alive,&#13;
silent languages of desire,&#13;
only the untamed may survive.&#13;
&#13;
Wordless velvet space,&#13;
of unbidden, unspoken and &#13;
fierce magnetic dark glances embrace.&#13;
&#13;
A glance unravels all constraints,&#13;
blazing a storm intense and deep.&#13;
&#13;
Cautious barriers faint,&#13;
secrets wake that stars should keep.&#13;
&#13;
The Universe contracts to this.&#13;
&#13;
When eyes hold the weight of stars,&#13;
bridging infinite abysses,&#13;
to heal the ache of ancient scars.&#13;
&#13;
The gravity between us pulls,&#13;
A heavy, breathless, sacred place,&#13;
as every earthly rhythm lulls&#13;
and distances lose meaning.&#13;
&#13;
No longer waiting, now undone,&#13;
potent energy ignites;&#13;
separate sparks collide,&#13;
burning away the lonely nights.&#13;
&#13;
Through the dark mirror of your sight,&#13;
I see the storm I cannot flee—&#13;
A fierce, consuming, blinding light&#13;
That locks your destiny to mine.&#13;
&#13;
Blinding, colliding sparks,&#13;
we bind the light and rule the dark.&#13;
&#13;
~LArry</text>
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              <text>&lt;a href="https://lawrencecatania.com/poems/Waiting.txt" title="Waiting" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;https://lawrencecatania.com/poems/Waiting.txt&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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