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SECRETS

Close-up of a vintage pocket watch with a textured dial in a moody setting.

SECRETS I should have notBut I have had, alas!Held secrets, enshrouded…… Deep within my heart… … Seeping downThe dark they bore… They relentlessly devourMy forfeited life,And shall wryly devourMy fleeting soul.

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CALAMITY

Moody foggy railway tracks in a misty landscape, evoking travel and mystery.

CALAMITY In the preface of my muleibrityI serenade maxims to eternal sleepI knot in the fixtures of our loveAnd grieve my forlorn jocundity Sitting cross-legged on the tip of my senseMy words shape a garrulous fantasyAs I try end the story of my beingAll I write is but a calamity

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FIASCO

Black and white photo of a man walking through shadows on a deserted pavement, creating a moody silhouette.

FIASCO in the hour that struck my sorry demiseMy friends laughed, my foes crackledStocks bloomed where daisies diedAnd saints bled in my debacleThe only eyes I still believedWere the two God made in my name.My asters withered in the breezeBewailing at my constant painA tale of loss in a free-willed life;A flooding chaos in a

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