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Stepping Out Of The Grave


You have to be immortal

to placate the gods

 

Time reaffirming

all memory of

 

Creation, destruction,

eternity looms

 

For those who believe

—appeasement exhumes 

 

(Calvary Cemetery: October, 2020)

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