Her Grey Island

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Her eyes were a dark grey

Her hair was a lighter grey

It flowed down to her elbows in faint waves

She would grip my hand tightly in her icy clutches

She would whisper in my ear in the dead of night

She was the face I saw when I aroused from fleeting dreams

She was an island

All in grey

Among colourful seas

It was only too late for me to realise

She had taken over

                                 ~ depression

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