Vernon Witmer Poet Free verse

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The Same Differences

The wrong people told us we were right

So we carried our ears forward 

Leaning into sounds we favored; 

Those which favored us.

We never lived beneath the tracks

We never had a friend 

Who was ended by a bullet 

Or a broken needle 

Bleeding memories onto 

The pages we write.

I can’t answer your cry 

With words 

That will change your past.

I haven’t lived

The life I didn’t want,

You needed that for yourself;

So you write without your answers

Questions no one bothers to ask

And I write my stories the same as you

With disappearing ink.

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