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Another Mega Prompts Challenge, writing prompts #019 - roll five or six (your choice) six-sided die. The sum is how many entries your poetry collection should have. I rolled a 20!
All These Different Colours Challenge, blue negative


Shuffled
7. Alone

They pretend they're four people
but in truth, two seats
are empty, and they'll always be.

Their shadows claim those seats.
Cold and stiff.

No-one will sit there
and warm
and destroy the balance they share

Because this balance they've built together
is impossible to share.