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Poetry: Bitter

Burnt

Your shadow is a whore's:
a sinuous silhouette
that melts before you,
that
sultry whisper,
stuck in thin indigo wind.

an old candle is your heart's fire
quenched with a resigned sigh.
trickling smoke and red ash...
-won't ignite no more.

can you keep my pain for me?
don't want it myself-
and I see you have baggage to spare.

do your threadbare dreams
keep you warm when you remember
...me?...you...

shadow of a lover:
you loved in vain.
you sacrificed your freedom
for a tattered used up life.

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