Like a lifeless leaf
crumbled to dust
my colours faded
I have become a shadow
monochrome
without your light
bleeding
like mournful ink
across the dark fields
of my empty heart
painting myself
into trembling rivers
flowing silently out
into the endless night

©Ann Bagnall

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