NaPM 2016 Day 18

Topic 18: A time -honored tradition amongst poets is the response poem wherein a poet responds to a favourite poem or one that inspires her. Write response poem to a poem that you like or one that inspires you. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more

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The Last Time

They pulled the ivy from the walls, my love, and yesterday dropped from the cracks, unboarding the windows, forming the key again in my hand. Your eyes, dark against the ground, do not track the flipskirt fancies tripping along the road. You, who envied my idleness, are idle now while I was always occupied. You didn't ask about the thoughts that filled my mind, or why I didn't speak. You knew me as space begging to be filled by your secretive smiles. The key unfolds. My words fill gaps left in stone by the passing of a parasite. Leaves are ground to dust beneath my heel.