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Poem inspired by a small piece of music
and in that moment
everything became
                  c l e a r . . .


                                      there was nothing left...


we couldn't stop the tears
that flowed so readily
so quickly


                        and only a whispered apology fell on
                                                            our hurting ears


solitude
                  was a dream we chased for
                                                              so          long
   


        an illusion
                        to call our own


                                                        . . . . . .



                                                                  no one was waiting for us





                  and we were waiting for
                                                        everything





but in the stagnant silence
          our heartbeats were slowing
                                    and light was something we'd never needed
                                                                                              or known



                                    we laughed bitterly at
                                                        the fragility
                                                                the delicate nature
                                                                      of what we had unleashed
                                        as we realized the sun would never rise again
                                                                          and death had marked us
                                                                          from the start


                                    this was "freedom"
                                                  and "deliverance"
                                                        and "everything we wanted"


we watched the dust settle
                      on our ignorantly shattered dream
                                                  and we felt
                                                                                      n o t h i n g


                                                          not even the saddest of songs could match
                                                                                      the exquisite agony
                                                                                            the elegant anguish
                                                                                                      of that final
                                                                                                                  word


this is all "goodbye" ever meant 
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