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Rated: 18+ · Poetry · Contest Entry · #2308861
Entry for the Rebel Poetry contest November 2023 (Joint third)
Victim of Changes

Part 1: A Touch of Evil

I watch in silence as he leaves
vanishing into the night
as softly as he came
taking nothing save
my innocence
and leaving
only
pain


Part 2: Painkiller

time
brings change
I watch them
play on the lawn
laughter in the air
not a care in the world
and they look so much like me
why must they have their father's eyes?


Poem forms: "Octet" Open in new Window.
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