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The Loss I Gained

February 27, 2023
By Wyndral BRONZE, Raleigh, North Carolina
Wyndral BRONZE, Raleigh, North Carolina
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My library holds a special display:

An ivory bookcase for a reader's buffet.

The most important it holds.

My stories it unfolds.

A red book I now view in dismay.

 

I entrusted it to One Dear.

Each other, we're now nowhere near.

I once told plots

Of which I received thoughts

From a voice I'll forever hear.

 

It is when we part that I provide

Some pages meant to be archived.

This book of art

Is now ripped apart

Due to One Dear of whom I'm deprived.

 

The ivory case is now tainted

By the red book's dye it acquainted.

Now all I see

In this quiet study

Is a hole in the book One Dear painted.


The author's comments:

I wrote this while thinking about the many people I've met that I thought were close, but ended up moving away. I always wonder if they meant more to me than I did to them. I hope people are careful at who they open up to.


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on May. 9 2023 at 11:50 am
Exegious_Mulcifer GOLD, Denver, Colorado
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I understand this. I'm so glad I'm not alone. Keep writing Wyndral, your work is beautiful.

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