A fright
comes over me
when I ponder
lengthy days
without you,
long days of silent
too-white walls,
their nights of obscure
identity.
The fright
comes over me
when I ponder
that somehow
we had got asunder
then how I seek
that renewed relief
in the bell
or in the turn
of your old key.
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