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The Burning Willow

December 21, 2015
By Aorist_Satori GOLD, Ephrata, Pennsylvania
Aorist_Satori GOLD, Ephrata, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -Socrates


When did you know?


When did you know

The willow was cut & the

Stars were nothing but fire?

And the roads were not

Endless, but empty,

Dirty alleys and wilted fields

For miles on miles?


When did you know

There was nothing, & the

Thought of comfort

Burned like sin?

In the hands of your own

Horrors, or in the arms of

Lonely skin?


When did you know?


When did you know you

Were the willow, and I

Nothing but flame?

When did you know

You screamed not fire

But whispered only

His name?


The author's comments:

For those whose skin has grown lonely.


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