the tortured hearts department: the desperate nightmares

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say it once again with feeling,
how the death rattle breathing,
silenced as the soul was leaving,
the deflation of our dreaming,
leaving me bereft and reeling.
my beloved ghost and me,
sitting in a tree,
d-y-i-n-g.

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