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Rated: E · Poetry · Mythology · #2184006
With a soot-blackened hand I reach inward.
With a soot-blackened hand
I reach inward

I place my palm
on the poor battered thing
and feel it tremble at my touch

Yet it is soothed
by meeting my scorched flesh:

Acknowledged
Understood.

I withdraw,
Leaving black coal behind,
and return to my work.
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