Last Memory

My last memory of this woman

Once beautiful beneathe the frangipanni tree.

Now gnarled by invisible elements.

Her back bent from burden.

She cried;

"Its going to rain soon,

My roses will drown!"

She was dead by morning.

I dreamt of clouds the following  night.

Of her voice;

"When you see,come running to me..."

She had fled from the rope around her neck

And plunged into the depths.

The curse was broken.

And I was free.

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