Listen to the song Your Hand in Mine by Explosions in the Sky, and write during it. If the song is up before your poem is finished, play it again. It is a good song to write to in part because it has no lyrics.
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\nTrekking through the snow and lights of
\nDecember\u2019s magic hours\u2014 my heart turns
\nto look into the air, where glittering blackness
\nresides and time stops, that\u2019s where I meant to be.
\nParting words: Remember me as a time of day.
\nRemember me as a song for our fathers.
\nAnd when it\u2019s time to great death,
\nlie in a bed, made of Yasmin the light.
\nClose your eyes and watch; the moon is down.
\nHave you passed through this night? In
\nthrough a poor man\u2019s memory, lying still
\nwith tired eyes, tired minds, and tired souls,
\nWe slept<\/p>\n
Resurrected, that first breath after coma,
\nfinally, the only moment we were alone. I
\nwould have lived there forever, but we only
\nhad six days at the bottom of the ocean. So
\nfor you these words are a memorial of your
\nhand in mine.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The last known surrounding of our love
\ncould only be measured in human qualities.
\nWe held weights and measures with trembling
\nhands\u2014telling our monkey minds: be comfortable,
\ncreature. And slipping away we\u2019ll recover that
\npostcard from 1952. Please let me back into
\nthat golden age of ignorance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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