her heart's eulogy

I never got the chance to bid our love goodbye, so I wrote this eulogy.

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She was the only one who could stand the heat of my love,

so she set herself alight to keep me warm,

scorched herself beyond recognition.

Her body mourned this death,

it told the secrets her eyes kept hidden from the rest of the world,

secrets that painted their canvas with the ashes of the light that once filled the nightsky,

a light that shone a path unto my feet,

a path to your heart.

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you should’ve never trusted me with your heart,

i deserted you,

i left you to fend for yourself against the demons that took shelter in the mind,

i stood by, watching as the devil finished the job he started in me,

and the demons that once solace in my body

left you with a depth of sorrow that defied the scripture,

and in the company of the sorrow that imposed itself onto your soul,

i grieved what remained of our love, remnants of the heart i vowed to protect.

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And the love story that once was,

a love so spellbinding, so profound and bewitching in its beauty,

became the sacrifice that atoned for my sins.

With you I felt the love I lost in my lifetime

but my love for you has been your heart’s undoing.