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The Many Lost


Pandering both sides against the middle,

duplicity won the day

To neither stand nor then be chased,

the coward has his way

Stealing the peace, betraying the war,

to live is then to die

The one from the many, the many now lost

—shame the binding tie

 

(Ronald McDonald House: June, 2021)

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