Your absence unexplained
your whispered words
once beautiful
alighted softly in my heart
and in the intervening years
the many leaves of loneliness
and a deep-felt longing
have gently consumed me
memories like butterflies
their wings beating in darkness
retreating into the weeping night
© Ann Bagnall

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