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Inkstains
January 11, 2017
you held me close
and closer and closer
still
(Just like the movies, you said.)
the air between us grew hot
and stifled
in the india-dark
(I love you, you said.
No,
I thought.)
you left your mark
in the colors of my soul
a rainbow of scars and bruises
your signature upon my heart
in a handwriting I didn't recognize
inkstains in red and black and blue
you left smears below my eyes
where you tried to blot out
the calligraphic teartracks
(Now you'll never forget me,
you said.)
© Calvin C., Salt Lake City, UT
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