Stephen Brooke Poems

Beneath the fading stars they pass,
too dim for mortal sight,
Shadows moving in the mist,
before dawn's first pale light.
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Sweep me up. I'm ready to go
in your box, be stored away.
My heart's been carried around too long,
been in too many pockets. Sweep me
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You have drifted from my heart,
On your separate, silent way;
Though I had hoped, of all I've known,
You, at least, might stay.
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