unexplained promises
I lost you to the night so many moons ago
metallic ship sailing off into the red sky
escorted by a company of single-winged fighters
your telepathic thoughts immediately
traveled through the dynamically charged lines
sending assuring words of an imminent rescue
how I wanted to believe in such promises
unknowing if it was really you on the other end
or simply a trick of my ever-complicated mind
of course neither you nor the mother ship
ever again broke through the thin atmospheric shield
unchanged and mysteriously crimson to this day
december two thousand nineteen
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