do you exist

(misted in smoke)

you must

if you melt my snow so

around the uhuru peaks

of the mountain that holds me

you speak

while i record truths of you in a book

that i keep in a box

not on that mountain but

deep inside

a boat

where air and blood

stain the flow of sunships

in and out and in and out

and you walk on boiling water

in my eyes

midst clouds of ash

deep inside

around the boat

afloat in a box in a book

about you

about you

.

ease bubbles thick

as oil, sleek, slow rings

tie us, perfect maelstrom

we, prolifically pyroclastic

you and i

we burn

the apocalypse

and still have left to spare

for us

of us

for us

we are always one

even when we are more

so much more

up and down a mountain

always close to the sky

you and i,

water and ash drifts

lahar we are, left in our landslide

barely surviving dreams we share

but we share

the pieces of love

.

my kilimanjaro man

my mountain man

my cave man

my cave

my man

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