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The present is too pressing
Somehow I must escape
The barren arid dreariness
Of love's lost hope landscape
The landmarks seem familiar
Though viewed as through a haze
For I have been here times before
In younger carefree days
Yonder see the quicksand
Where my élan now drowns
Careful lest you get too close
Its boundaries are unknown
The shiftless sands of time are there
Awaiting my mis-step
Its placid grey indifference
Belie the perilous depths
Devoid horizons crouch to swell
The searing grit that blasts
The tumbleweeds of haloed dreams
We dug up from the past
But look! A cactus flower
How soft and sweet its leaves
Of blood red blending into pinks
And white of purity
I've caressed these blossoms and
Have showered them with tears
Inhaled their fragrant rare essence
Because your face they mirrored
Now embracing spiny thorns
They sting and injure me
My mind reels from the poison
Still my heart I cannot free
Written by Magenta in 1988
The present is too pressing
Somehow I must escape
The barren arid dreariness
Of love's lost hope landscape
The landmarks seem familiar
Though viewed as through a haze
For I have been here times before
In younger carefree days
Yonder see the quicksand
Where my élan now drowns
Careful lest you get too close
Its boundaries are unknown
The shiftless sands of time are there
Awaiting my mis-step
Its placid grey indifference
Belie the perilous depths
Devoid horizons crouch to swell
The searing grit that blasts
The tumbleweeds of haloed dreams
We dug up from the past
But look! A cactus flower
How soft and sweet its leaves
Of blood red blending into pinks
And white of purity
I've caressed these blossoms and
Have showered them with tears
Inhaled their fragrant rare essence
Because your face they mirrored
Now embracing spiny thorns
They sting and injure me
My mind reels from the poison
Still my heart I cannot free
Written by Magenta in 1988
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