'Goodbye' She Wrote
By Silver Spun Sand
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“The moving finger writes
and having writ moves on;
nor all your piety and wit
shall lure it back to cancel
half a line, nor all your tears
wash out a word of it.”
Omar Khayyam
Ink – once
the deepest shade
of violet, sunlight
has diluted to a paler
shade of white...
stealing the last scrap
I had of you...
A few letters remain...
scattered here and there;
fragmented ‘M’s
and tormented ‘Y’s
still serve to remind
your eyes were the colour
of a bruised, summer sky
when a storm was due.
And yet, one thing’s
never faded;
that flourish at the end
where you’d signed
your name...
as if your pen,
caressed the page
with an impulsive
stroke of longing,
instinctively knowing,
time would erase all, save
that which is written
between the lines.
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wow, Tina this nearly
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Yes beautiful and sad Tina-
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Very nice indeed - I often
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What can I say, that hasn't
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Really beautiful, and I love
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Yes I know what you mean. I
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Ditto on everything that has
barryj1
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I too love the image Beeme
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New Silver-Spun-Sand Well
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