When I know the time is right, I will inhale.
\nOne careful, sensuous, languorous breath
\nDrawn within me, deep and slow,
\nAnd I will taste the colour of your passing summer\u2019s day. <\/p>\n
You turn your face away now, towards the sun,
\nAnd seek to shun the memory of me \u2013
\nSurfeited as you are with this energy, this light.
\nCarelessly squandering a world so richly green. <\/p>\n
But I will breathe once more \u2013 much deeper then \u2013
\nDrawing the colours from the earth and sky.
\nAnd the wheel will turn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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