A single tear slides
\nSwiftly down your face
\nYou reach out to hold me
\nBut I avoid your tense embrace
\n“I’ll not touch you,”
\nI cry, though strangely make no sound
\nThere is little noise here
\nWhere once it did abound
\nI see water drip,
\nA book fall
\nI shrug your arm off
\nBut do not hear your call
\nAll sound has gone
\nThe light fails, too
\nYour grief envelops me
\nI can’t escape its tomb
\nForgive me for my faults
\nI want to live!
\nToo late, my cry unheard
\nAnd life is not yours to give
\nI beg you to recall
\nThe way you loved me then
\nYou giggle madly
\nSound returns again
\n“Loved you,” comes the cackle
\nWisping through clenched teeth
\n“Not I, but you
\n“You loved me,” you seeth
\nAnd now my eyes are clear
\nWater drips, book falls
\nIt is my arm on yours
\nIt is I who calls
\nFor a brief moment I understand your hate
\nBut you leave anyway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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