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The Eclectic Pen - Smoke


By: Star U. (macgyvershe)   + 5 more  
Date Submitted: 6/26/2011
Genre: Literature & Fiction » Poetry
Words: 25
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I smell the smoke,
the failing embers
dying.

Bereft,
the fire left
nothing.

It’s over now.

Ashes
swirl away
into a
starless night.

No witness
to the carnage.

Love sacrificed
in fires
of betrayal.

No phoenix
to resurrect.

Only smoke
and uninterrupted death.


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