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Rated: E · Poetry · Emotional · #2354494

GENTLE STRENGTH

Silent sereneness.
A beguiling calm,
shared like a balm.
Often taken for weakness.
Mistaken as meekness,
ever seeks to disarm.
Belying the storm,
silent sereneness.


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