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Versisognanti

The Lonely Consonant's Yearning

A rough breath, barely a faint hiss,
veiled among the teeth, an unspoken line.
It is the consonant, without its own bliss,
a silent curve, an unfulfilled design.

Silence is not its true abyss,
but the absent echo that makes it vain.
It seeks a vowel, a sacred plexus,
to give it voice, to make it sovereign again.

Without that open breath, that bright clarity,
it remains a stone, an incomplete idea.
But with the “A,” the “E,” the “I” in its heart’s mystery,
it becomes song, a word already understood and dear.

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