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The Departed Friend by Gregg Glory
Introductory Poem
Venom and Agony
Style Notes
Missing
The Return
The Departed Friend

In Amber 
Complete Poem

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I sing of him
I craned from pole to pole
Is it a death
But, yet, I've reconciled such loss
I found little upon my mount
When I am of my little life
To rob a grave not yet stuffed
Hope that thrives in everything alive
What resolution will recompense
How many hours had snow blown
An ache beneath the pain of years
Told I would not come to be beloved
When the briar brave entwines my grave
The book is closed
Forgotten friend!
When the windowpane fills with light
Voiceless the vision vanishes
In my heart, a false fable starts
If some grave power left us here
parted by pernicious fate
Electra longs for her lone ideal
I looked at life through stainless panes
Echoes of some diviner love
Can friendship live when friend has left
Then politics spilt its dirty milk
Enemies made by mild reproach
Life's a marble in a bowl
Was it for those echoes alone
You have moved in love to others

Let us say no more

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