The Bridge

A sight I saw,
Over the rutted bridge,
Down below,
An inky darkness splitting in two,
Propelled like figures moving through the midst,
And so they called out to me to join them in spectral dissolution,
I refused their incantations ,
Their kiss of chance and change and ultimate loss of all,
And so I walked on in to twilight's dying embers by the light's end.

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