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Ashes To Ashes


Only the dead

see an end

to war

 

Ashes to ashes

dust

keeping score

 

Only the living

revere

the dead

 

The past

in exile

—the future in dread

 

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)

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Kurt Philip Behm

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