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Rated: E · Poetry · Family · #1476241

Written at a troubled time

Years ago, in time long past
My mother told to me
That all men born of woman
Must suffer misery
Each of us our cross must bear
The sin of our ancestry
My cross I’d bear in silence
If only there were not three.
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