Echoes of retreating footsteps <br /> Stark and forbidding <br /> Drum down my salt-rubbed wounded days. <br /> <br /> I betrayed with a lie <br /> Making love a pauper <br /> Breaking a sublime heart once mine.<br /><br />Colin Ian Jeffery<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/footsteps-13/
