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Artist's Lament


What did I leave

my family

What have I left

to my kids

What did we share

together

Why would they ever

forgive

The things I kept

inside me …

The times I sat

alone …

The things I hid

in silence …

Those times 

—that haunt me so

 

(The New Room: August, 2023) 

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