where are the hapsburg's who once were important indeed?/part 2

where are the Hapsburg's who once were important indeed?/ part 2

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It didn't happen. It was a dream in a dream. Youth and happiness. Temporary, unplanned; to recollect ist verboten.


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gone but not forgotten, sadly silent

Gone but not forgotten, sadly silent

fiction
edward w pritchard

Memories shadow,
vaporously appears late at night
as essence of past removals.
Refusing to stay gone.

I reach out in sleep from behind my eyes,
with the will to touch that preceded arms and hands.

Momentarily, dreaming,
I capture your lost essence,
its gone but not forgotten, sadly silent,
solidly material, far removed from hands and arms.

Stir gently when we remember the past,
the wings fall off the butterfly when we shake the jar.

Hold the butterfly jar softly with cupped finger tips
while the smell of forgiven misery
wafts violently against the sides of the jar.

What happened at night
secretly silent,
verboten
never happened.