Adoring Sweet (the cry)

What I wouldn’t want adoring sweet

Shared and cared and snared and tore the meat

After chapters brimming to the brink

Placid pools of empty at your feet

A whisper to, and where? and there, defeat

Being left a martyr shallow beat

Watching other girls, adoring sweet.


----- by Lydia

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