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Elegy

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There is an emptiness in your mouth,
a gaping maw of black. You swallowed suns,
drank the star-dust dry.

Helene, raise your moon-arc face
and turn the sky. Part your lips.
Your breath - a prayer. Your words -
the black-hole roar;

merely a gasp.
I read this on a black background.
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TwistedAlyx's avatar
I love the first stanza. :clap: