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Poetry Challenge - April - Levity


Smile when it's hard


Like a child you seem not to care

nor know, of how horrid people can be.

you believe in beauty and love,

kindness and occassional levity.


I ask you 

about the devastation and anguish

that lurks behind the very eyes 

that have seen it all.


You answer with gentle pause,

that everything - is but a glimpse,

of who we were or might be one day,

or that which we already are.




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