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After the last vote has been cast and the election is decided, the real work begins.
(813 words)
After the last vote has been cast and the election is decided, the real work begins.
(813 words)
The tides draw me
relentlessly,
toward the distant shore.
As the moon moves
effortlessly,
high above the waters.
We stand up, shout out, punch up, and don’t punch out until the message is heard loud and clear.
Beneath the black umbrella tops
their hearts beat in time
with each and every falling drop
of rain against the pine.
TW: Death
I was at the hospital with my dad. He was there to be tested for an issue related to what took my mom’s life a few years before. While waiting, an idea for a poem hit me.
The promise kept them,
hope sustained them,
every day a little less.
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