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Tonight
Through the tears
That sprang from your pain
And fell from my eyes,
I looked into the sky
Where there was one less star shining,
And I wept for the world
Where life carries on
Just that bit darker
Than before
You left.
©2017 Joanne Van Leerdam
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This poem and fifty others are now published in a new collection: The Passing Of The Night.