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Sep 30
Phoenix

 Rising from the ashes of our love.

 You spread your wings and fly,
 Soaring into eternity,
while I dissolve 
into ash below you.

The Phoenix consumes all it touches.

It is the price of immortality.

And only she will remember, 
how brightly I burned for her.
Todd Sommerville
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Todd Sommerville  60/M/United States
(60/M/United States)   
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