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Soul touching poetry contest entry

A girl half hidden

in dark whispers of shadow

Her cloak, ragged and fraying

strewn across the ground

Once vibrant blonde locks

now limp, like thirsting petals

Faded blue eyes, empty

and achingly hollow

The wind howls along

with her misery

Her heart, her soul, her mind

shattered

There was a tall man

and he was hers

And while he was, she soared

glowing in joy

But then he vanished

into the purple-black night

not a trace left behind

She knows blood was spilt

It begins to rain;

God is crying

for the loss of one

and the ruin of another

And her limpid tears fall

splashing like raindrops

on the sodden grass

Her limbs shake with cold

Gleaming silver ice forms

on tear-stained lashes

           She feels strikingly numb

           sitting against the alley wall

           When she closes her eyes

           she can see him in heaven

           I’m coming, she thinks

           and her thoughts fade to grey