Doubt seeps in and it seers the mind
Implications of absence dismay
Mystified, obfuscated by all
Textures drift and the present unbind.
Pulling threads from the hem of my skirt,
Lips stained burgundy… remnant of hope
That the timepiece was wrong. He will come.
His escape a success. Him — unhurt.
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