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I forgot how to love you

Regrets linger heavily, 

There are long shadows cast,

Love’s flame extinguished, 

There’s no chance we’ll last.

 

In fervent haste,

I bade us a final adieu.

Hopelessly, passionlessly 

I forgot how to love you

 

There was an absence of heart, 

a chasm so wide,

We stood naked and adrift, 

In love's ebbing tide.

 

Our love slipped away, 

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