At midnight A flower blooms Petals lifting To the moon Like a bird Who sings her song Sweetly, swiftly For too long Too long, for She's out of breath A kiss held fast 'Til her love's spent She is me And me is I And my eye sees me Left behind A heart not found In fiction's fact Encased in glass Like bric-à-brac
-Written July 3, 2012
as my life transitioned from one season to the next
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