There are those dreary nights<\/p>\n
When one swears to hear tapping<\/p>\n
Out there, or in my beleaguered mind<\/p>\n
Fear, isolation, and other destructive blights<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Or is it a ghost<\/p>\n
After all, I lived and loved<\/p>\n
Made glaring mistakes in my lust<\/p>\n
those of which I should not boast<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The radiance, beauty and dare<\/p>\n
That voice so wild and untamed<\/p>\n
The way she entered the room<\/p>\n
like a Greek statue, arms aflare<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I keep hurdling in anxious temptation<\/p>\n
Is there a greeting, within my tortured soul<\/p>\n
My heart beating, in a doomful cry<\/p>\n
the pounding, I fear, is my final Damnation<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
There is a rise in me<\/p>\n
some misty apparition of hope<\/p>\n
So I did take advantage of my aging feet<\/p>\n
and checked the door to see<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Before me, a milky darkness<\/p>\n
There was silence, yet a silky flow<\/p>\n
Strange threads of white<\/p>\n
teasing me, and my moral starkness<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Two golden wings appeared, waving<\/p>\n
and then turned to black<\/p>\n
Speeding off or disappearing<\/p>\n
I could not tell in gasping breathes craving<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The story was told<\/p>\n
but the end was in my room<\/p>\n
As I turned to see a wedding dress<\/p>\n
tattered and cold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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