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Rated: E · Poetry · Family · #465348
A word from a story tickles the ears of a toddler
Humbly

He laughs at humbly
as though the word suggests to him
no virtue than that of laughter

or because the sound of it
misgives its true intent
to one whose size and age

dictate natural humility
in a world of
Ancient Giants.
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