first bruise

 

 

Streetlamps flicker,  

echoing their silence.  

The chill—  

not just in the air,  

but between glances  

that once burned.  

Footsteps dissolve  

into memory's fog,  

while love  

learns its first  

bruise.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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