EVENTuALLY
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If u ALLY the EVENT, ALL will fall into place. EVENTuALLY, that is.
odyssey2024-02-28T11:31:20ZNine
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<p>and what a nine!</p>El Eye Ef Ee2017-09-29T21:12:29ZodysseyThe Wall
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and then it begins to crumble</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the wall that you had built<br />giving it your years of tireless labour<br />dreaming of it by night<br />laying brick by brick, by day<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and when the wall was complete<br />you sat there crying<br />running your numb fingers along its finish<br />for, it was your dying hour<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">home became a mere metaphor<br />when the boys grew up into adults<br />and the wall aged<br />soaked in rain, it gathered moss<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">they will never know <br />how glad you will in your grave be<br />if they fain touch the wall<br />such is the life after death<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">but now, the wall is crumbling<br />because someone somewhere<br />pulled a brick and crushed it into sand<br />such is the tale of neglect<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">should the wall be put up again?<br />but what crumbles once crumbles again<br />and again. and again.<br />and again. and again.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">till you forget how many again times<br />it has crumbled;<br />till it gets tired of crumbling<br />or dies. again.</span></p>Poetry2016-10-09T17:54:42ZodysseyWar-end Piece
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">two cups of hot tea</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">lay on the table</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">as if they whispered to each other</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">they issued faint smoke</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">she picked up his</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and walked to the window</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">that looked into a pond</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">through the still, cold water</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">moved like a knife, hamid's naked frame</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">bearing the traces of love</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">that her nails had made</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">she held the cup between her palms</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">as she would, his face</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and brought it to her smiling lips</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">fate cannot be always kind, though</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">the looking-glass will break</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and its racuous laughter</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">will cut your reflection into pieces</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">so there in front of her, hamid, her life</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and in stealthy silence</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">barely fifty feet behind, her death</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"there's no place safe</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">when men cry for war", smirked the captain</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">looking out from the war tank</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and nodded, "do it!"</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"but she is harmless", said the junior</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"blow her up!" - the captain</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">--------</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"noor!" hamid cried</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">but the house </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">that stood on the edge of the cliff</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">was razed</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">embers of the rubble hurt his feet</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"noor!" he cried</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">but neither blood nor bone could he find</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">burdened with ash</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">he ran into the forest</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">to search for her footprints</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and all the trinkets</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">that adorned her body once</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and fell into the secret corners</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">when their fingers played </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">the games of love</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">but the snow pulled a blanket</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">on the leaves, fallen and green</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">on the barks</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">weary and tendermost alike</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">on the smallest detail of the roads</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">he was the only spot</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">which moved in that frozen landscape</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">every tree looked same</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">sullen, hiding in the drape of white</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">afar, the horizon dissolved </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">spreading the pall of gloom</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">he ran like a lunatic</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">caught in an absurd maze</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">only to find nothing</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">fine as a razor's edge</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">grief cut him in two</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">nothing was naked anymore</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">in that forest</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">save his anguish</span></p>Poetry2016-10-05T15:45:53ZodysseyEight
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">twoninezeroninetwozerozeroeight</span></p>El Eye Ef Ee2016-09-29T14:37:43ZodysseyLet This Winter Linger
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">he just frowned</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">or smiled</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">it was unclear</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">when she asked</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">how the winters,</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ten and more,</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">had passed</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">her fingers,</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">still as slender,</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">curled into the handle</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of the coffee mug.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">his fingers ached</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">she asked again,</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">now smiling,</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">about the winters</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">would those lips</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">taste of coffee</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">or of the sweet longing</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of all those years</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">he won't know</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">in this winter of life</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">what tales could he have</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of those winters, </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">without her, lifeless</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">so he just frowned</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">or maybe he smiled</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">it was unclear</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">but then life</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">etches its tales</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">on your face</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">in wrinkles fine</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and each wrinkle</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">hid a tale</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">that he will -</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">when all light fades -</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">whisper to her</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">in silence</span></p>Poetry2016-07-23T01:28:20ZodysseyThe Evening Song
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">i hugged a tree.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">on my fingers</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">a butterfly perched briefly</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and then it flew</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">fly away it did,</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">i thought </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">with its tender wings</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">it flew, and flew more</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">across the seas</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and thousand miles</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">the hour was quiet</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">in those woods deep</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">it found the tree</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">that she was hugging</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and, it then kissed</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">her svelte, gentle fingers</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">oh, and in my heart</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">i felt a flutter</span></p>PoetryEl Eye Ef Ee2016-07-07T15:44:15ZodysseyFootprints
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">crimson dusk fades slowly</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">as the dying murmur</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of the restless waves</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a gentle breeze from afar</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ruffles my hair</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">i think it's her loving fingers</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">as the breeze leaves me</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">my heart flies off, too,</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">along with her</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the clouds are gathering<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">blurring the distance<br />and i smell the rain</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">on these feeble sands</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">my infirm feet tiptoe</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and my fingertips dance</span></p>PoetryEl Eye Ef Ee2016-06-30T12:46:53ZodysseyClipped Wings
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of the shade burlesque</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">awake in mute gray</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the walls won’t talk</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and she can’t hear</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ripped from time</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">he lay still, cold</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">as a buried dream</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">unmoved by her tears</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">she caresses his toes</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">they tickle no more</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a silence so haunting</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">fate’s cruel laughter!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“dad, where have you gone?”</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">she whispers, almost</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">but then, life is so</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a vile trick of time</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">when she was born</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">his life became fuller</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and in his death</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">her life now, lighter</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“what is this, dad”?</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">she asked, in a moment past</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">pointing at the title</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of a book he loved</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">without his saying a word</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">she now understands</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">what it means:</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“the unbearable lightness of being”</span></p>
<p> </p>Poetry2016-04-19T20:33:26ZodysseyBlindfold
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As if it’s a golden rule, we blindly associate strategy with success. So much so that we don’t even acknowledge that those who fail have strategies too. Strategy has nothing to do with success or failure; it’s a mere plan, a wish. Nothing more. You can have an impeccable strategy and yet lose, or a loose one and yet win. You are playing a game with many loose ends, and not pushing a ball into a visible hole.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You will rather smirk at this if you are a successful executive leading a unicorn. For you don’t want the world to know you are being paid millions for just playing dice. This doesn’t have to be so. Take credit for the move (which is, no doubt, a function of intelligence), but not for what shows up on the dice.</span></p>
<p> </p>Management2016-03-02T12:46:29ZodysseyStrangers and Lovers
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">from the table afar</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">beckoned by a brief glance</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">she smiled at him;</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a moment so joyful</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">it effaced all time,</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">all the years</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and every minute</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">they parted for</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a fate so cruel</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">they part every time</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">if they meet as lovers;</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a destiny so kind</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">their paths cross</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">as if bound to,</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">if strangers</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">they pretend to be</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">so they vowed</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">in whispers quiet,</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">silent and unspoken,</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">that they shall</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">meet as strangers</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">so familiar</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">they need not utter a word</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">but yet</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">she was afraid</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">if he has brought along</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the past –</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a bittersweet secret</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">that only they</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(she and he) know</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">but his hands were bare</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">bare as the agony</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of a longing</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">that still burns,</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a longing</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">that they never let</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">to their fingertips</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">or the unkissed lips</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">at midnight hour</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the day before</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">he walked through</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the stooping corridors</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of time</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">through the burlesque</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">labyrinths of memory</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">through the crumbling</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">walls of dreams</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and hurled</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">into the deepest woods</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">that precious secret</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">at dawn</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">as it lay frozen</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">in a stray nest</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">a squirrel stopped by</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and ate it fine</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the restless eagle</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">finished the remains</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">so his hands were bare</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">he doesn’t need carry</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the weight</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of the time gone by</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">he can now see it all</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">in her eyes</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">which, with one glance,</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">melt both</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the dreams that were</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">treasured in the past</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and memories</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of this evening</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">he will take to the grave</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">he smiled, too</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">but said not a word</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">for, what if</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">it will, yet again,</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">invite the wrath</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of the brutish fate</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">she stood up</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and briskly walked out</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">before even her fragrance</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">could waft along</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">his bearded cheeks</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">minutes later</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">as the fumes</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of unshared coffee</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">felt the two empty chairs</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">all one could hear</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">was the deep sigh</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of two hearts</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">that belong</span></p>
<p> </p>Poetry2016-02-11T15:29:48Zodyssey