Bedecked : A Poem

The flame

is dying slowly

as dancing dusk 

whispers soirees 

of past joys.

Your offering

of powdered love,

scant & meagre

leaves me 

in velvet silence

of dissembled

existence

in transient shadows

of tomorrow.

And yet,

bedecked in hope

I still await

You. 

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