The Withering Bloom
At the dead of night
he came inside stealthily,
By daybreak he was gone.
He stole the essence of my flower,
left me with swaths of thorns in his wake,
a feeling of hollowness in my world.
~Contest: 1431 Any Form
~Sponsor: Brian Strand.
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