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Fragile Fires by Simon J. Charlton

The moon is finished
The stars exhausted smears across
A sky bruised and trembling
Silken threads braid the dawnsoft air

We rise to the darkness breaking
Our naked forms silhouettes framed by silence
The sun anticipated in the slowburn of your smile
The night still held in your eyes

Daylight unasked fingers the curtain’s hem
We are fragile fires reduced to ashes
Ghost planets drifting to separate orbits
In gradual retreat from promises never spoken

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