Poetry

The Pattern in the Carpet

I knew it from the first. I always knew it. You try to tell me different, but my heart, it Whispers, and my blood it whispers, do it. It’s right, it’s powerful and there’s nothing to it. So do it now and finish what we started. The time’s gone wrong and nothing else will mend it. We have to do it now. We have to end it. The heart is true, so listen to the heart. He’s dead and done for. We will never part.   The time’s gone wrong and we’ve gone wronger, so We say it, then we…

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