The Condemned


from the ABC set The Poet Who Fell in Love

Cupid’s fickle arrows
fell like black rain.
They blocked out the sun;
heart-shaped
in a sapphire sky.

And you were the north -
everything pointed to you.
All my heart had to do was follow
the signs.

As I knew it would,
because each of your footprints
became hallowed ground.

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