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The ticking clock, like gunshots through my head aimed at my youthful ignorance... the scent of you still lingers in our bed. I ghost through space, not living, not yet dead - straddle chasms of our best intents- the ticking clock, like gunshots through my head... My mind still hears the poetry you read, replays the laugh of youth's exuberance, the scent of you still lingers in our bed. I enter empty house now, filled with dread. I feel your absence, all it represents- the ticking clock, like gunshots through my head. A fog billows in, begins to spread, as death comes to erode all innocence. The scent of you still lingers in our bed. My nose has plundered through each precious thread for faintest linger of your redolence... the ticking clock, like gunshots in my head. The scent of you is fading from our bed... © Mar 2018, Winnie Carolina
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Dec 19, 2022
Dec 19, 2022 at 2:50 PM UTC
Lost (villanelle)
The ticking clock, like gunshots through my head aimed at my youthful ignorance... the scent of you still lingers in our bed. I ghost through space, not living, not yet dead - straddle chasms of our best intents- the ticking clock, like gunshots through my head... My mind still hears the poetry you read, replays the laugh of youth's exuberance, the scent of you still lingers in our bed. I enter empty house now, filled with dread. I feel your absence, all it represents- the ticking clock, like gunshots through my head. A fog billows in, begins to spread, as death comes to erode all innocence. The scent of you still lingers in our bed. My nose has plundered through each precious thread for faintest linger of your redolence... the ticking clock, like gunshots in my head. The scent of you is fading from our bed... © Mar 2018, Winnie Carolina
18032018 07/21/1954 (08/05/15)-12/07/2022 © Mar 2018, Winnie Carolina
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Dec 19, 2022
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