This week's Rough Cuts are especially fresh, having both been written just yesterday. I usually let first drafts sit for a while so they can breathe and I can forget about them to revisit them with a clear and objective mind, at which point I would decide whether they have potential or are complete rubbish (the "what on Earth was I thinking when I wrote that?!" moment). Sharing my "rough cuts" means being extremely vulnerable, and this is as vulnerable as I could possibly get, and I may delete this post in a week. Okay, enough rambling; here are this week's Rough Cuts...
Photo: Kate Smr
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Into Dusk
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Light leaves quietly,
dragging with it into dusk,
all I am and time.
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Copyright 2022 by M. E. Forbes
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Photo: Jp Valery
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I am lying here
silently,
in this most delicate hour,
writing this
under the soft warm glow
of my faithful lamp,
knowing
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you are standing there
silently,
at a most inappropriate time,
reading this
in absolutely the wrong light
on some indifferent screen,
not knowing
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just how desperately,
silently,
I love you.
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Copyright 2022 by M. E. Forbes