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# State of Affairs
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- Published: 2023-05-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-05-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: And so, what now? Continue to pretend? Ours that, most unoriginal of sins, a sign of something coming to an end? The same old, ancient story that begins with all that promise, only to collapse as sunsets settle to a s...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

And so, what now? Continue to pretend?  
Ours that, most unoriginal of sins,  
a sign of something coming to an end?  
The same old, ancient story that begins  
with all that promise, only to collapse  
as sunsets settle to a stale routine  
and closeness soon accustoms to the gaps,  
inevitable, coming in between  
the ones that once thought they can be as one,  
but realize that they were all alone.  
It's over just as quickly as begun.  
All that remains is expiate, atone...  
You'll fall again, though now you are bereft.  
Continue to pretend? What else is left?