On the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11

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Not Pro, not anti

just accepting

getting on with my own life

until, with the closing of your life

I am suddenly made aware

that for goodness knows how long

there had lain, deep inside of me

a strange, quiet love.

A love ever present

but never actually felt  

or expressed,

never acknowledged

never enjoyed.

Now the object of love is gone

and a strange emptiness invades

and for a little while I wept

waiting to say "Farewell!"