blather
vanishing_act
perfectly_chaotic the flame was bright and red
thousands of words crumble
the ashes and entropy

they say the words are
irrecoverable

to me they seem
soured diamonds

etched into vascular
tissue little
craters of vestigial

feelings

the once cherished words
despised truths of
what once was and now

time to search to
sift through the muddy
ashes to find what remains

looking through despised poems
the burnt poems
the fire could not burn
the memory of the feelings

now i look in vain
for news in the ashes
i try not to die miserably
for lack of something
that was once found there
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