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Ashes To Ashes

Only the dead
see an end
to war

Ashes to ashes
dust
keeping score

Only the living
revere
the dead

The past
in exile
—the future in dread


(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)

Copyright © | Year Posted 2023




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