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This is How I say Goodbye

June 14, 2017
By Everette_Alderete GOLD, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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"Deep into that darkness peering <br /> Long I stood there<br /> Wondering, fearing, doubting<br /> Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before"<br /> -Edgar Allen Poe

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This is how I say goodbye
With broken truths and
Stolen lies
This is how I decide to say
That I love you
From miles away
When the world
Falls apart
And the poke of reality
Seems too sharp
A trembling hand draws blood
With a red stained knife
And tears flood
Stinging eyes
A written note
Holds feelings untold
And a smooth gray stone
Marks rotted old bones
When the girl in the mirror sadly says
That she is better gone today
And a chalk outline
Marks the spot
Of a where a laughing soul
Once stood

© Yisrawayl G., Philadelphia, PA

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