his funeral was smaller

sparsely attended

but his mother came

and wept

his sister

tall and dark

stood silent

she guessed the reason

but did not speak it

he stabbed himself

in the dawn

and bled into the sunrise

but sometimes

when the air is thick with longing

his sister goes to the cliff

and places

a single rose

in the grass.

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when he was young and climbed and fell

erik wandered near the well

and looked down deep into the swell

and saw

a piece of something dark and bright

so erik left the morning light

and climbed down deep to set things right

and saw

and he saw to much to far to deep

and all that he could do was weep

for the light was gone and the darkness creeped

and saw