The gates still stood among the fortress ruins,

but you, the guardian, sensed the weakness.

"I am not I any longer...", you declared softly,  

while your dress slowly vanished in the mist,

and an eternal melancholy pervaded

the beaming evanescence of the past.

By then, your voice became a memory, mother,

and your absence a deafening silence.

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