journeys designed,

shaped together —

shaken apart – such

suchness denied.

odd rents and tears –

ceaselessly tended,

reworked into paradise.

only soft light reveals

what once we were —

barest complements:

indelicate, intertwined.

palest shadow-play

amid dun, pitted bricks.

memory deconstructs

as we too now crumble —

into salient disrepair.

. . . . .

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