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I felt your presence

Beyond the gnarled pines

Your withering figure

Could no more - deny me what was mine

I had lost all ambition

Enshrined in the black

What time had raped from me

I would surely take back

But beneath the gray

I saw: your fearful face

Forlorn, and trepid

What more could I stand to lose - !

In the wake of your misery

My memento –

In the wake of your misery

I’ll find you there –

I could await you no longer

Not in the haze of that day

All but sorrow lay on those words

And the tongue - knew no misery

There was nothing of hatred

And of bleak silence in death

There was naught that - could near reach

The ears of the child that slept

And I could not fathom

The smile that you wore

This endless absolution

Had quelled all fear in my heart

I’ll find you there