Geertje H

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“Goodbye My Love” by Geertje H

Submitted to Contest #290

Goodbye My Love.Exhausted, I fall on the cot, pull my knees, and blanket up, wrap my arms around my shoulders and force myself to ignore the tears pooling behind my closed eyelids. I fight sleep. I know I will sleep eventually, but when I sleep my memories will be erased.In my dreams, the daily boredom and tedium are gently whisked away on a breeze. But it hurts when a joke and the cautious laughter that follows breaks away. It is painful when the sparkle in his eye, the twitch of his lips that is almost a smile, is ripped from me. I whimper...

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