Once beautiful
his whispered words
alighted softly in her heart
his absence unexplained
in the intervening years
the many leaves of loneliness
gently overwhelmed her
Memories like butterflies
their wings beating in darkness
retreating into the weeping night
© Ann Bagnall

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