The winter of your absence
I hide and freeze
Entombed beneath the sheets of ice
And sleep a thousand deaths
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The springtime of your nascence
I wake and thaw
Swell and split with roots of white
Shoots of the brightest sheen
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The summer of your presence
I thrive and bloom
Bedecked is wondrous petalled shades
I burst and bear my fruit
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The autumn of your distance
I shrink and curl
Corrupted back into the earth
Embrace eternal winter
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