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The Place You Last Loved Me
By: Paula Shepard

I search for you there
the place you last loved me
our secret garden
How could you leave me here alone?
How could you leave me calling your name?

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What is so important- those things that keep you?
Why do you not join me here where I await you- if only for a time?
Does not your heart call for me in the night
and your soul ache for my embrace?

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Sunlight slowly dims to shadows,
the flowers here fading without your smile,
the trees wasting away without your touch,
the birds are slipping into silence,
even the dragonfly's are gone

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Tears and loneliness are all I have left
wondering where you are and what keeps you so long
wandering, lost, alone
in the place you last loved me