L. K. Thayer - When You Were All Mine

when the bell rang
and the roses
were there
I inhaled you

I cried
knowing I'd lose
at my own hand
I watched us slip

I stopped waiting for you
to take my breath
to slay me

my dragon
seeing the agony
of what we had
finish

sharing a sullen love
too much to endure
my fleeting
valentine

when you
were all mine

L. K. Thayer

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