Tears Of My Fathers

Inheriting
my shadow
Its legacy
dark
Willed into
my memory
Devoid
of a spark

No light
to define it
Or outline
inscribed
The emptiness
preying  
Where ancestor’s
— cry

(Dreamsleep: December, 2025)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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