Love Poem: Deprture
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Written by: Robert Franklin

Deprture

She waited
And dimmed
Burning
The setting sun’s a heavy weight

She wallowed
Rotting
Horizon far behind
A heart’s a lover’s lovelorn urn

She endured
Brazen
Tear shaped
Hornets stitched her broken skin

She remembered
Searing
Slow dancing fireflies
Embers sparkling in his eyes 

She reached
Frail hands
Chilled stone and bone
Heed hot candle’s shapeless wax

She acquitted
Marauder 
Clinical tolerance
High functioning excommunication 

She walked
Discerning
A deep cold abyss
To search within and be swallowed

She walked
And waited
And remembered
Ceremonial departure