The aftermath of war - the only true peace
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If thou are Depressed
Thee strive in past
If are thou anxious
thee strive the aftermath
If thou live in peace
thee float in presen
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I found among the elms
something like the sound of your voice,
something like the aftermath of love itself
after the lightning strikes,
when the startled wind shrieks...
a gored-out wound in wood,
love’s pale memento mori—
that livid white scar...
('Memento Mori' by Michael R. Burch)
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In my harbor, there was no lighthouse. Just two sharks that circled my innocence, grabbing a feel. A second-grade teacher followed by a ninth-grade janitor scenting blood, bait, boy as if I was their prey. The sea held this secret for fifty years and in its aftermath, nothing was ever at bay.
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"It is our goodness that provokes our history. Our attempts at resolving the conflicts of our nature is what creates the history that we celebrate. History is an aftermath of a consequence"
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