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Sipping Claret from a Lismore Goblet

Bereft and alone since love was lost,
she sits in deep shadows
humming the same song
sipping claret from a Lismore goblet

Day and night, in silence she dwells 
Time no longer sifts through an hourglass.
Heartache has cast a wicked spell
cursing her into a void of loneliness 

She's drawn the drapes,
praying an eclipse will fill the abyss
into which she's fallen
Hoping it will swallow moonlight's glow
keeping it hidden from sight

Entombed as though in a sepulcher,
her insipid soul sits spiritless
on this night, cold and bleak
No spark of life can be roused
in her vacant eyes 
as if blood no longer flows in her heart

Naught but darkness does she seek
Only that and to be left alone
away from pitiable stares
She sits in deep shadows
humming the same song
sipping claret from a Lismore goblet

Copyright © Lin Lane

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