Once Upon A December

James BellAugust 8, 2017

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Once Upon A December

written by: James Bell

@jbell_counsel

Once upon a December
Willing myself again and again, not to remember

Those late Autumn days
Thoughts of you, now just a receding and distant haze

Winter crept in uninvited
A love that flourished, now bitterly unrequited

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