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Rated: E · Other · Death · #1334386

A Ghazal. My first attempt at one!

Throughout the years I've missed your smile.
So much so that I do not smile.

You left this earth with quiet ease
With on your face a content smile.

You understood your time had come
You left for me just your faint smile.

I could not accept your wise words
I kept deep sorrow, did not smile.

But on the day that you left me
Exactly five years, with that smile -

I heard you like a whisper soft
"Why not hear me? Why don't you smile?"

And then I understood the words
I closed my eyes and yes - I smile.
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