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Albert1434
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08/11/2025
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Good Times - 12. Chapter 12

Whispers Beneath the Cypress

Beneath the cypress, where nightingales sigh, I carved your name in the breath of the sky. The moon wore your silence like jasmine and flame, And stars wept softly at the sound of your name.

My heart, a lantern in Shiraz’s breeze, Burns for your shadow among ancient trees. Come—let us vanish where roses still bleed, And time drinks wine from the cup of our need.

Bullet to the Heart

I ride alone where the mesquite leans, Past ghost towns stitched in tumbleweeds’ seams. My saddle creaks like an old man’s sigh, And the wind don’t ask me why I cry.

My heart’s a colt that broke its rein, Wild with love, now limping with pain. He left me cold in the desert sun— No shade, no whiskey, no place to run.

Soul burns hot like a six-shot flame, Each breath a bullet whisperin’ his name. I ain’t no outlaw, but I’ve done my time— In the jail of memory, in the gallows of rhyme.

So I ride, and I bleed, and I don’t look back— Just a lonesome shadow on a rusted track. If love’s a bullet, then I took the round— Straight to the heart, where no mercy’s found.

Blood in the Dust

Gunshot rang— not in rage, but in truth.

Blood in the sand, blood in the dust, my love for you turned to rust.

No last kiss, no soft goodbye, just smoke and silence under a dying sky.

You were the fire, I was the flame— now ash and echoes forget our name.

I don’t ride for vengeance, don’t pray for grace— just leave my shadow in this place.