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I was sitting thinking of our future

and of how friendship had overcome

so many nights bloated with pain;

I was sitting in a room that looked on to a garden

and a stillness filled me,

bitterness drifted from me.

I was as near paradise as I am likely to get again.

I was sitting thinking of the chaos

we had caused in one another

and was amazed we had survived it.

I was thinking of our future

and of what we would do together,

and where we would go and how,

when night came

burying me bit by bit,

and you entered the room

trembling and solemn-faced,

on time for once.