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#Day12

 

tonight I shall bid goodbye,

after years of trying

to grab each strand of a smoky love

and winding them into

illusions.

 

tonight, I shall break,

the patterns that I

carved, fitting them into

spaces that I cleared for you.

I shall leave them vacant for a while.

 

tonight I shall silence

the sobs that have racked :

the yearning, the ache, the wait.

the cold stare that jabbed,

the words, the tearing away of hands.

 

tonight I shall heal

the gashes : the ones the  world

has seen and pitied

and whispered behind closed doors

while they bled.

 

tonight I shall write a new song,

build a fire from

broken twigs that were

left behind ; a walk by myself

in the place we began:

tonight I shall….

 

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