Life As We Know It

LIFE AS WE KNOW IT


we are all our mothers seed,
projected by the thorn
the rags of age and distant rage
of which we each have worn.
the tears we shed,
thy hostil bed
these years of constant fear,
no matter where our loved ones are
they always feel so near.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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November 23, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Liofe is such, stephen
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