written and uploaded 2004.10.22

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"Fall, Leaves"

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Empty goodnights resound off the walls of my mind;
A broken "I love you" is left half-spoken.
Half-heard or not at all?
My lips part to speak, my fingertips to reach,
But already she's gone.
I wonder where all of the time's gone,
When we used to just play
In the bliss of the autumn leaves.
As though nothing was ever taken for granted.
And I watch as her heart goes flying,
Falling another way.
Captured and clipped,
I see her wings-
By someone other than me, no less.
But what did I expect
When all that I ever told her was chaste and unspoken?
Silence, apparently, isn't quite as golden as it once seemed,
Like it was back in the old days,
Where we both died in our pile of dead dreams.

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~ Damascus Ochre ~