Grace Has Escaped My Mouth

Oh you Lovely, lovely fool, 
Grace has escaped your mouth.
All the words and all of the lines
that you waxed poetic, how you thought they would free you from your prison.
Instead, they exact their ransom, and hold you to memory
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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