Empty Offering

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And everything from those lips
Their odes tossed
like coins to begging hands
Their melodies worn as raiments
Closed round cold shoulders.
I think of them
When I am alone
When the light flickers out
When the cold seeps
into weary bones
And all you have are hollow words to warm you

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