A petty poem.
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I imagined her smooth, soft skin turned dry and scaled with age and neglect; the whitening of her
lush hair, the souring of her body.
Time would shake beauty from her, if beauty exists, until she became a bare and scrawny trunk
surrounded by wisps of past glory.
Her muffled cries would fade into the years, and the shine love lent her eyes would dissolve into a
tired dream —
or so I thought;
I thought that love was nothing so important after all, and I could shrug, indifferent, and let her walk
away with her wet cheeks and anger —
And oh, if I could take back that day!
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That is what you’ll say
the day after I leave you.
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You were warned.
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M.A. Mohanraj
November 15, 1996