It’s time once again for Poetics at the dVerse Poets Pub. Today, our host Laura Bloomsbury has asked us to Choose ONE of the lines below and write your poem as continuation where the poet left off, thematically, in the same mood, rather than literally. Give special thought to your own final lines.
I chose “Airless and unloved, in the dank basement of the mind” L. Igloria. A Reparation
Afterward, I stayed.
I needed some time
alone with you. To remember
our life, our love, and to mourn
the loss of what
we will never have.
Soon, the clouds unfurled
it was no surprise.
Without you to smile upon,
my love,
the sun cannot bring
itself to shine.
Ergo, the Ogre 
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