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bones are bones, when left alone …

          our marrow - the love, unvarnished,

               but sun-to-sun, the blood's undone

     by time, and the truth, so tarnished.






Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, September 8, 2022
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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