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Metal and Wood

Wood and metal, 
metal and wood:
one is warm, 
born of fire, 
its beauty carved 
from the tree of life.

The other, near ice hard, 
forever dead, 
strong as death too, 
never to burn-- 
but also never to feel....
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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