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Silent Voices


External conflict

(versus)

self-disaffection

 

The first a misdemeanor

(the second)

a higher crime

 

Inarticulate

powerful yearnings

trapped in between

 

Inarticulate

powerful yearnings

—of that forever lost

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2022)

 

 

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