Torn in the Shadow...

...but still a Rose

   Love reigns in p

                   a

                  r

                   t

                  i

                   c

                  l

                   e

                  s

               of 

                       promises

      Stars sparkling 

                in hearts of 

                     forever-intentions

    Til and then, 

           morning light t

                         e

                          a

                         r

                           s 

                              our focus

                 exposing ground zero

                  just moments 

before hitting 

the

        blind spot

   of

        loss.

And yet...

              We bloom...

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NOW

The shadow swallows the light 

and eats the shape 

of everything real.

I ride on the mouth of this dream, 

holding fast to the fantasy 

of memory 

and permanence,

While steering every action

towards erasing any evidence of it.

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