Imagine it.
I tried to.
Want to?
I don’t.
Beyond me,
it must be.
The terror shook me.
Deadpan expressions
fixed on faces.
Ava’s crooked grin
warms me with a heat
I couldn’t bear to touch.
Life is love
But apathy has killed it.

(© 2022 AC)

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