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Crocodile Tears

I awoke in on a hazy summer day

With a start! in a cabin by the bay

Right next to a familiar face

And big brown eyes that I recognized

Without a bit of trace.

 

You silently, lovingly led me to the dock

Where the hot bright sun was our only clock

As we stood, watching, waiting for something to stir-

At last -- in our moment of peaceful happiness,

As it should have been, as we once were.

 

Alas! The glass water rippled before it shattered

By two monstrous crocodiles whose black bodies clattered

Together, all around our once peaceful place,

And destroying our electric connection,

You waded in the water before I could look upon your face.

 

I screamed your name as you drifted away

Into the blackness of the transforming day

That became my empty night as I awoke

From my nightmare, my face wet with crocodile tears

Over my loss of the ghost of us, the relationship I broke.

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