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What If We Changed Names of Things

If love had another name
        it would be equally tender, smooth
        and tendentiously affectionate ...
        If the rose was called thorn,
        it would still be charming,
        smelling ... still superb and elegant.
        If the Devil called himself God,
       this God would lose the grandeur
       and he would hate to be called God ...?
       If life were death,
       it would still be desirable
       and ardently dear ...
      But if death were life,
      would be vilified, rejected and
      nobody would wish her
      as a friend ...! ?

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