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Bloodied Blossoms
Before you became an imprint on sidewalks steps
I watched your blood bloom on the pink of cherry trees
I stood weeping as petals kissed Adieu to Mother Life
But who was I to deny
As you kindly intertwined with the bluest of skies
I stalled in silence as you pirouetted through twirling breeze
A Fall through eternal cloud
I keep wishing I had warned
When the currents twisted north, east and south
I still feel torn by the torrents that slashed through your sky
Was it truly I,
Who drowned your perfection into mushed mounds
Or were they flattened under winds of flight
Pounded into ground
In the gust of my ignorance
Your pink particles elapsed to a memory
And you frenziedly grasped for the branches you were born
Just know it was you
Who longed to fly forever unfound
You were desperate to leave
Who you were not
On the ground
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