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We are but drifters from another time —
	this world too harsh
		too clay for unlearned hands
		too easy early errors are to make
		while life rests breathless on the threaded maze
	this world too full of lurid livid scenes
	where what we make
		outnumbers
		what we dream
	we are pale ciphers
		to barest shell reduced
		is this our world or yours?
		we will not claim it — take it!
	we are the jellyfish unbound —
		transient waif in a torn nightgown
		your face embossed on gelatinous memory
		like sandcastles washing out the sea
	breezes waft — sun drying salt and tears
		like the sea we are gone —
		again gone
		you fade and we were never really here