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Rated: 18+ · Book · Dark · #2291017
This is a collection of poems told from fictional view points. They are not about me.
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#1058518 added November 1, 2023 at 9:18pm
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Exhaustion
Tonight,
my burdens weigh heavy,
thick iron chains
dragging grooves
in the dirt.
Every shuffling step
demands more
from muscles that burn with fatigue.
Gritty eyes lose focus
and the shadowy gloom
fades as the last slow blink
ends with feathered lashes
resting on dusty cheeks.
The faint snap of a whip,
somehow near yet far,
is a mere echo.


Free verse. Written 10 February 2016.
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