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communication breakdown

Today I saw someone  
from the distant past
She looked different  
with her  
 
skeletal frame  
lusterless tresses and  
eyes

 
that looked like  
unpolished onyx  
that did not belong there  
 
Feeling a surge  
of pained indifference  
I sat down  
started a stoic soliloquy  
with phases of silence
 
which seemed to  
slash the flesh
draining the blood  
 
and I held her hand  
finally with a strange  
coldness  
 
she looked at me and  
something inside me  
d i e d  
 
In the agitated storm  
of a few minutes  
I tried to talk  
summing up  
 
the leftover fragmented courage  
 
and care
 
When finally  
I said something to her
pausing for  
 
responses
 
all she did was  
stare thru me at something  
 
midair  
 
and repeat a part of my words  
and nod  
and drift away  
 
That way  
all my questions were echoed  
 
back to me
 
for which I had no possible answer  
except cursed stupor
 
Centuries later
 
I got up  
and walked away  
while looking at her  
 
as she sat
still holding
the empty tea cup

mid air.
Written by Whitewand6
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