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Our Claim to Fame

Starlight is defamed
comets swallow their own tails
time folds entropy
shadows not now reflected
all applause rendered to void

In the vanishing
I stand stripped of flesh and bone
naked to atone
as a soul in reckoning
for what I've become, not done
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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Rodrigues Avatar
September 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
comets swallow their own tails…Love the final verse! You are a great poet!
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