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    Argent Rose     September 19, 2009

    hand trembling

    reached past thorns

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    yesterday love died

    stole blue from shrieking sky

    drained lake's glittering green

    tore warm tones from skin once fair

    bleached reddest rose

    poured ebony ink across stilled heart

    remaining soul knew only decay

    yet

    here glowing in garden regal

    bloomed ghost grey rose

    life brilliant, breathing gold

    unearthly impossible light gleaming

    incandescence somehow captured

    giving warmth to anguished heart

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    hand trembling

    reached past thorns

    ​

    hesitated unsure

    wanting to pluck jewel

    but then understood

    memories shy away from restraint

    die when eposed to reality

    scatter before a disbelieving wind

    sighing

    hand stilled

    solaced heart

    retraced steps

    never looking back

    leaving ghost grey rose

    unlike the lost love

    intact

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