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Rated: E · Poetry · Emotional · #1680379
a candle in the wind

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The proletarians’ stared at me
As if I were only
A candle
In the wind.

Unable
To be grasped
Properly, my motions
Slinky

as I rush through
the slim fingers
like the finest
of sands.

for one brief
moment
quenched, the next
inextinguishable.



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