(K)not with love…

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(un)true love, d'Verse Poets Pub, Dark love, Effect, Flash, Fleeting glimpse of love, In a moment, Influence, Love, Lust, Open Link Night, Overlap, Sudden realization, Superficial, Too good to be true, Two hearts

Image made by me using iPad's ArtStudio

Somewhere in the space of time
our hearts crossed paths
Mine was red with passion
Yours, dark with desire
And it only took us
a few moments to realize
that while I reddened yours,
you had blackened mine…

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**Posted for Open Link Night‘s 30th week here at d’VersePoets – one of my favorite Tuesday afternoon hangouts! **

Naked reality

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Abuse, Change, Dark, Effect, Endurance, Hardened, Incidents, Lifeless, Living dead, Magpie Tales, Situation, Sudden, Trauma

Image Credits: Tess Kincaid@Magpie Tales

Ms. Purity was her name
In honeyed milk she bathed
And in gold, was swathed
Much far reached her fame
Joyful was this youth…

Then came a horrid storm
And snatched her near and dear
Thus left with a mind unclear
She strayed from every norm
Then nothing was the same…

What was once soft and clean
Soon was wrought and shaped
Only to be tossed and raped
By hands too rough and mean
Amorphous was her form…

Shattered from this fall
Mildewed in nasty truth
She now stood sans all ruth
A hardened brick in the wall
At living death, she gaped…

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**Posted for Magpie Tales – Week 51… Please check it our for other amazing takes on this image prompt! **