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write a poem using the words: -ember(s) -illuminate(d) -vanish(es,ed) -crush(es,ed) -love(ly,ing,ed) -strangle(d,s)
Cover image for post The Thrill is Gone, by Rachel
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Rachel

The Thrill is Gone

The flowers that you crushed

Still sit on my doorstep,

Wilting,

A fragment of what they were...

The love we had

Was illuminated by a

Candle of a thousand souls,

But it's vanished,

A fact you don't know.

Our fire is nothing but embers.