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“All human life has its seasons, and no one’s personal chaos can be permanent: winter, after all does not last forever does it? There is summer, too, and spring, and though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, that summer, but they do, and always."
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Wretched Tears

The wretched tears of grief

I will come to know

as the fiend builds with us his home

through his obscurity

we can't see

that he hides within a healers coat

the serpent that is he

from a crown of bloody slivers

his putrid soul was framed

the slivers pierce and gouge his skin

still, he hides well

the secret from within

but soon

my wretched tears of grief

will turn to acid

on his open skin

and all who worship him will know

for whom he is a kin

not a healer at all

but satins heinous angel

of callous death is him.




For my mother
who was murdered in 1979
When I was only 10

 
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