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Ruins (Free verse) by Caducus
Night fell in Rome
as we once did.
I have returned
to what never left me,
As a ruin amongst ruins
a statue by statues
once magnificent
sculptured by architects
crafted lovingly
to be destroyed
then admired,
by Lovers in the Emperors new shoes.
I remembered her last words.
Watched lovers mow scarlet,
and became invisible to them
blanched against a colonnade
which held nothing but achromatic skies
and me until sunrise.
This is my requiem for you my love.
The promise fulfilled,
you rise across the Tiber
taking my prayers with you
on pastures where you answered them
seven years ago in Rome,
Oh my love - we are home.
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