Sepia
Sip the slide of spilled champagne
Feel it glide through every vein
Scented by the rose red lips
Aghast beheld by rapture's grip
Scars reflect in mannequin eyes
Silent screams and splintered sighs
Famished with a tongue that's tied
Stuck in place; nowhere to hide
Love stained sheets stacked layers deep
With every page left incomplete
Flyblown how it always goes
The suffocating ties of a forgive me rose
Prolonged tones kept secret deep
Ache your dreams in twilight sleep
Failed your heart of required rest
The heat runs steep within your breast
Ignoring signs that divulge in play
Mocking ignorance still kept at bay
Ingest the cup of a costly regret
Mouth his name in one last breath
Or carve the dread you often apprise
And sip the slide of sweet red wine
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