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August 21, 2016

My Love (Vidya)

shalini-vidya

Death blooms in my room
In blinding shades of crimson
More alive than life ever was
With fiery passion—ambition.
I submit to him
How can I not?
The kind of love that I yearned for
Has finally arrived.

— Vidya

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