Flare

They say it's not my business 
to console her, to lend her grief 
brief respite, for winds blow cold 
on remote torment and regret;
yet death revived an ember, 
a flare not shared since we were one
in better days that I shall ne'er forget.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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