For the Memoir

I loved all the beginnings 
Though the ends collapsed in tears
I could not console them
Busily I hid my trembling and fears
And you could not talk to me
For you too were a new brutality
Along the road I took to love
I now know eagle's cannot be doves
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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