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POETRY 2025

What a Twist

by Ayşegül KASAP

Your eyes, once warm as dawn,
Held worlds of us, a place to lean upon.
A quiet fire, a vow concealed,
In every glance, the truth revealed—
A love that lived, though now it's gone.

Now you look at me like winter,
Cold enough to make me shiver.
What was once a sunlit place
Is shadowed now by something sharper—
A darkness I can't unsee.

A twist of fate, from joy to pain,
A slow descent we can't explain.
Our moments fell like fleeting rain,
And left behind a hollow stain—
The bond we cherished now in vain.

I reach for memories, but they sting,
Turned brittle, bruised, and dry.
The warmth we had lies buried deep,
Covered in frost, lost in the silence
Of everything we couldn’t save.

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