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Written for Sadje’s prompt, “what do you see?” AND NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo

How long had it been

Since the key had gone missing

Time enough for her

To grow older, but nary

Full seasons for longing’s end

~

Among Fall’s brown leaves

It lay, warm as when he had

Placed it in her palm–

Was it fity years ago?

No, it was far too burnished

~

Lustrous as her love

For him had shimmered that day…

Rose-colored Autumn

Her heartbeat stutter-stepping

Wond’ring if he’d stay a while

~

He’d left with promise

To return she knew not when–

Gifted her brass key

Never saying where she’d find

True lock it must have fitted

~

Surely now she knew

Ah…it was his younger heart

Older, faraway…

Or hidden ‘mid his ashes

Where her pining would remain

©V.Sparrow, 2024