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Awaiting Bliss
I'm no longer me, she said
Later, when clouds passed by
Her mind went with them
She discovered it, sometime later
in a jar upon a dusty shelf
In a room unfamiliar
Where Time had nibbled away
at the glistening softness
to leave a part of it missing
But she wasn't to know
It was others who relayed it
In sympathetic stares
And, enforced, Mona Lisa smiles
...Friday 21st January 2022 12:43 pm
The Withered Vine
I watch her slowly
fall from grace
Her body still
Her mind displaced
New memories
no longer stay
they simply
just
drift a w a y
Like a mist around
a mountain old
that dissipates
as the dawn unfolds
She's there in body
but sparse of mind
Sometimes it's hard
to seek, and find
The vibrant woman
she...
Wednesday 26th May 2021 6:20 pm
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