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Captured

Striving to be anonymous,
  the hole got deeper still

Ties were broken, ropes were cut,
  less water in the well

Alone within my loneliness
  the darkness came at last

The wish, I wish, I’d wished away
  —had captured me at last

(Flagstaff Arizona: February, 2019)

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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Date: 2/3/2019 3:22:00 PM
Hello Kurt, I have enjoyed this poem. Well done my friend.
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Kurt Philip Behm
Date: 2/3/2019 4:16:00 PM
Thanks so much, Darlene

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