requiescat in pace

and there you stood so young so old with no glitter in your gold consoled by the lies they left untold so cold in the house that never sold

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and there you stood so young

so old

with no glitter in your gold

consoled

by the lies they left untold

so cold

in the house that never sold

One response

  1. C.B. Wentworth Avatar

    Very haunting, but also quite beautiful. I love the line “with no glitter in your gold.”

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