Aphasia

Lamenting for the loss of words                                                                                                                                            They were there and now they are not                                                                                                                              Shining like a woman with starburst eyes                                                                                                                 vanishing leaving only a halo of tears in mine                                                                                                          searching for the words and their fate                                                                                                                                          were they kidnapped by a seducer a plunderer                                                                                                                    drawn away in the hunting net of a thief                                                                                                                        who cannot create but only appropriate                                                                                                                           Have they been harmed molested are they safe                                                                                               Lamenting for the loss of words                                                                                                                                            They were there and now they are not                                                                                                                                   To perpetrator the only thing sadder                                                                                                                               than the loss for words                                                                                                                                                           is never having any of your own
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January 5, 2017 at 6:58 PM
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