Poetry Structure & Pattern

A 10+ line poem that employs rhetorical patterning to maximal effect. There are no restrictions on subject and none on style, save that end rhyme is forbidden and punctuation obligatory.

 
Too Late
 
A whisper in the night,
A dull tone in my core,
A distance, a longing
I still refused to see.

He stole my song of solace,
He severed my sense of self,
He silenced my psalm of spirit,
‘til
nothing
was
left
of
me.