Close Your Book

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Pressed into a book
a flower fragrant dies
held in the place it took
marking important lines

I am that dying dream
smashed inside the seam
of a chapter in your story
in forgotten times of glory

once you picked me long ago
in the spring we no longer know
Once you kept me in your vase
with a smile on your face

Yet there were no roots nor soil there
No place to grow love anywhere
Dry are these petals, leaves and stem
and you close your book on me again

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