Love Poem: soliloquy

soliloquy

               o pray …

should count we all the phrases fought
          there is not time with conscious thought
     sieved, all those hearts that poets wrought …

and when their breaths come laid to bed
          sweet then those dreams are softly bled
     souls lost thru time and stained to red …

               oh …

     how dear praise giv’n midst life … instead.





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