loss

his words askew with grief

he only met her once again and grieved then as hard as a stoning

he was in pain and she could see it written on the architecture of his face like graffiti

you are only young once old soul

she cut him to the quick

yet had seen him in both extremes of life

ecstasy and its reverse

he went to his grave thirsting for that knowledge as a widower resembles a skeleton dessicated like bone in a deadly drought disintegrates

it drove him mad

he grieved for every decade to come but they were limited in prospect as the fingers of a mans hands are few …

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