After
She is the
maiden of endings -
vague frustrations
mapped in runic haze
of smoke and afterglow.
He knows this,
ears assaulted by the
sound of running water,
ache starting in his side,
lying between sheets
disheveled by their familiarity.
He fingers his pendant,
jade goldfish,
and thinks of her raven tattoos.
Thought and memory
will be all he has left,
the only consolation
keeping both his eyes.
She enters the room
to find him gone,
goodbye another sacrifice
to her and to himself.
She sighs and
lays across the bed,
fingers tracing signs
of what had been.
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