Letter to the Fallen

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There was a time when 

I could run as far as I wished. A time where I could 

Catch the wrist 

Before you could even brush the edge of the cliff. 


But time passed like a bird's 

Molt. You never did listen to

Whatever we're told. I couldn't 

Always reach you before you tried 

To escape, to grow wings and 

Pretend to be invincible in your hero's cape. 


So that day you flew off

The overhang. I remember because 

I could do nothing as 

The toll of Death's bells rang. 


I dove over after and 

Retrieved what I could, and

You lived, you ecstatically did.

But, I think, I could never

Fetch every piece from the rocks at 

The bottom of the ravine.  

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