Brazen Shroud

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<bR> <div> Through touching, in the centre of that storm,</div> <bR> <div> Your brilliant heart engulphed with cold advice,</div> <bR> <div> I thought I'd stopped their blizzard's dark "white lies",</div> <bR> <div> From freezing hard around your fractured form.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> But needing ice to blur the child below,</div> <bR> <div> You drifted off, downtrodden as the snow.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>