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My pen is emptying itself upon your page
Thick and slick and blue
Once clear became cherry then fading into burgundy
Now sapphire on edges of you
I once could let my ink roam around your lines
Cross them and near the center
Now my words and stripes stay straight between
There’s no straying, I’m staying
On your sheet
Between your limits
Now I’m left just a corner
Now as you drift far away
I know my mark isn’t fading
My scratch outs, my x’s, my holes torn through
But my ink of pink overruns this azure
I’m writing alone without your side
It’s floating away upon a wind of past
You’re so gone, so gone, so blown away
And not with the smile like you used to give
Your page, your page, just turned away
Drifted away without me