🌿🌻Triolet for Thursday 04🌻🌿Estranged🌻🌿

triolet #poetry #french

The silence grows where love once bloomed,  
A garden abandoned to thorn and stone. 
Your voice, once heard, is now entombed.
The silence grows where love once bloomed. 
I trace the years clothed in deepest gloom,
Each echo, now a ghost all alone. 
The silence grows where love once bloomed, 
A garden left to thorn and stone.

I forgave you so many years ago,
Forgiveness and letting go are the key.
Now it is your turn to learn and let go.
I forgave you so many years ago,
Life is so short to swim against the flow.
Forgiving heals, good for you and me,
I forgave you so many years ago,
Forgiveness and letting go are the key.

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