In Lieu of Soot

The world was my darkness
The soot in my blackened sights 
I once cried in shallows
Words entomed within my grave
Dug with smiles merrit of fading sorrows
My final morrows led by fate
Towards the rejoicing of tomorrow.

3.11.23
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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