JL Valentine

A lifetime of moats – walls and drawbridges

Shadowed scars beyond ivy’s ridge

Where evil Stepmothers of fairytales

Feelings of less than as you exhale 

Prisoned hearts within your snare

Echoes in G minor to which despair

Decades of lies and villainous chill

Endured by cancer’s poisoned pill

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I’m left with a sister’s loss and grim

All the while you play the victim

Her chest rises and falls thus now has passed

For now, my voice lost within sands cast

I whisper your name as to awake

Only to find your life opaque

Anguish emotions are left prevailed

To recognize thus bridges are far too frail

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Where is the healing of closed gates at night?

Alone on the bridge til dawns sunlight