12th Prompt From Wordwielder: Lost years
A drabble
Lost Years
A book of lost years,
of lost dreams and lost innocence…
page after page in his elegant hand.
A record of ruin,
in word and in photograph,
look at these faces, and please understand…
Every last one of these girls fell in love with him,
every last one was convinced he was true,
every last one heard he'd strayed then redeemed himself;
falsehoods and slander, ordeals he'd been through.
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Every last one thought he loved her exclusively
and deemed his devotion eternal and strong.
Every last one…look again at the photographs…
every last one,
my dear Violet…
was wrong.
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a/n…this relates to Baron Gruner's book, at the end of "The Illustrious Client".