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Names in a Sandstone Wall

A declaration of love etches itself deep into a bed of soft sandstone. The kind that's hastily scratched on with nothing more than a stone found on the nearby ground. The letters are shaky, imperfect but the heart that binds them is true. Some initials are old, some much younger yet all possess the flair of emotion that their carvers had. Inevitably, they will be washed away by wind or by water, nothing lasts, not even the wall which they are etched onto but in the moment, there was love.

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Date: 7/27/2025 11:03:00 AM
Fantastic idea for a poem...no doubt inspired by what you actually saw sometime recently or longer back in the past perhaps. Enjoyed the read! :) john
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Shane Zhao
Date: 7/28/2025 1:18:00 AM
Spot on actually ;) I was recently in the Lake District on a geology camp and came across a wall that inspired this xD

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