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Author's Notes: All feedback very gratefully received. This poem is dedicated to Due Sue and everyone at Fraserfriends.

Story Notes: Vague ATQH spoilers

DISMISSED

Release: that all our rules would not allow And world was frozen, falling out of view And time was fire, alive with only now
And air that melted into me and you.

Then, red on piercing white, a leave request? To you, red stands for duty, honour, pride To me, a life of exile, emptiness
With what I need, and what I still denied.

Come dreams, I want to float in reverie Escape the daylight's ghosts of guilt and shame You're etched in every midnight memory
My voice through silent miles calls out your name.

No happy ever after: since we kissed
I feel that I'm the one who's been....
Dismissed.