dissolution

the soft rustling of paper
cut straight to the bone.
the exhumed husk of an accord
lay bare and bleached with time. 

no pomp,
just the circumstance of two lives
once intertwined, cleaved.
the sundering of a promise unearthed 
by the artifact of their anticlimactic romance.
her fingers strain to support the weight of a disillusioned love.

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