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by Celia Love

Created on: May 01, 2008

SOLD JUST LIKE THAT
The words rang out like a shot
reverberating in my head
and echoing in my brain.
Time froze for a split second
everything stopped.
Silence fell like a lead weight
as we all fought to hold back
the flood gates.
Looking in at each other
together this way for the last time.
Struggling to picture how it is going to be
now that an end of an era has set us free.

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