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by Emily Author IconMail Icon
Rated: E · Poetry · Inspirational · #1270334

a short poem, depicting the will to survive

The firey leaves
grasp at the branches
hoping they can last-
one more hour, minute
even just one second.
Their dreams, once vivid
and hopeful...
now slip from dull branches
and land crisp and brittle.
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