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Eyes To Close


I love the isolation,

God help me but I do

 

Being alone inside my words,

neither old nor new

 

The rumbling of the moment,

the sound of distant drums

 

My eyes to close upon myself

—time now zero sum

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2019) 

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