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Why I Write


words flowing

and ink that stains

always determined

never refrains

everything that cannot be done

only pondered

never won

someday acheived 

forever wished

willed always

sometimes amiss

reality efforted

or perhaps surpassed

but words are forever

and poetry lasts.

 

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