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Black and White and Red All Over 
by Rie Sheridan Rose 

There’s a silence in these halls

held in by thick stone walls…

Shadows thick as midnight,

though the window pulses sunlight.

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I was so happy then,

the day I last came in,

he waited at the altar—

and my steps they did not falter.

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I was a blushing bride,

with my father at my side,

my dress of pearly white,

everyone’s face alight…

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The best day of my life,

Now sullied by time’s knife…

We were young and had it all.

Forgetting the inevitable fall.

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A year has come and gone,

since he was first to travel on…

I thought I could bear it…

but that idea has no merit.

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I couldn’t stand to be alone,

so even though I can’t condone

the method that I’ve chosen here,

I’ve gone to find my love so dear.

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I leave here in this sacred hall

this garbled note explaining all…

I’m sorry for the bloody mess.

A sea of red on snow-white dress.

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Fiction © Copyright Rie Sheridan Rose
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More from Author Rie Sheridan Rose:

Overheard in Hell:
Dark Poetry

Poems exploring hell and damnation. Tales of sorrow, vengeance, betrayal, and redemption. Ghosts, ghouls, and demons stalk these pages. Don’t read in a lonely house…in a darkened room by a single candle…

…unless you like the touch of an icy finger up your spine.

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