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Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present .
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January 11, 2023 at 11:37am
January 11, 2023 at 11:37am
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Truth

The truth is but a narrow way,
a slender path between the lies,
few footprints mark its surface,
yet somehow it never dies

Through sand and stone it marks the route,
through marsh and sad despair,
straight towards eternal goal,
while highways bend from there.


Line count: 8
Rhymed abcb defe
For Express It In Eight, 01.11.23
Prompt: “You can't handle the truth!” - A Few Good Men, 1992.


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