The Beginning of the End
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He would not tell her what that paper said,
Turning pale after scanning what it read.
“Why won’t you share? What is your fortune?”
She thinks they both need to hear something fun.
Ghostly, glaring he eats the cookie instead.
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He flicks the crumpled slip her way with dread
“A new love is blooming” the fortune read.
Eyes lift up from the words, “what have you done?”
He would not tell her.
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“What have you done?” repeatedly she plead,
Heart and stomach dropping, as if of lead.
Knowing the challenges have just begun,
Knowing this was the ending of their fun,
Knowing the life as she knew it was dead
He would not tell her.
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(A Rondeau Poem)
A Picture and a Poem 