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One Breath

by Kurt Philip Behm

Complex topics

simple rhymes

Truth untangled

darkness shines

Terse in format

long on tone 

Silence Christened

sin bemoans

 

Complex topics

simple rhymes

Said but once

forever chime

One breath frees

indentured words

Locked away

— in verse unheard

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2025) 

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