Truth Be Told

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Time and circumstance
took you away,
stole yesterday
and left me
no tomorrow.

Truth be told, one chance
was all I had.
It all went bad
and swept me
into sorrow.

The dream of love I had
could never be defined
by its origin or length
but only by its depth,

and your absence will always be
a void, a chasm, a schism to me,
a hollow, an endless abyss,
a yawning gulf of emptiness.

                             03/16/2024