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Billowing clouds

Smoke rising to the sky as

Hot fire burns away…

 

All the confidence

The happiness

The joy…

 

The little moments shared between us

Nothing but ashes left in the empty rooms of my mind

I breathe in the cold air from these lifeless places…

 

Embrace the freezing vapor

Dimming that fire

Mixing ice with ash until…

 

Sooty mud

Clogs my throat and

Presses on my lungs…

 

I can’t breathe

I can’t love

I can’t pull myself from this heartbreak you’ve left, instead…

 

Of those warmer days

And billowing clouds

And moments of joy…

 

That no longer fill my soul

Dead from the hot fire

That burned me away…

 

Until I was nothing more than ash caught in the wind.