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Rated: 18+ · Book · Drama · #1253431

Poetry in April -- in celebration

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#980202 added April 4, 2020 at 10:31am
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After You
You went with your eyes open
I closed them
with my tears
when breath left you
I held my breath, too.

And now,
I am a hollowed stump
stuck inside
this shell of a house
where I miss my words
and all words
miss me.
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