its all there, writ on vellum

engrossed by time and fate

scrolled as wayward history

marks each and every date

familiar names and their sins

revenants of thirsts unslaked

wild love that soon withered

or cakes that never got baked

scars and might have beens

guilts and nameless shame

glories and fleeting trophies

won from life's hectic game

of late,...

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Nothing is more permanent than memory

Cast-iron files of pain locked in your head

The mind gets drawn back to errors and loss

Magnetised by things you should have said

Torturer is chief is villainous hindsight

Squatting by the guillotine with a smirk

Chewing over all those might-have-beens

In lost chances where grief and loss lurk

Even in dreams we face the angry ...

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