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I watched a child
digging in the sand
just above the surf,

a hole for no reason.

I should have told him
about futility,

and lost battles,
and life,

but I sat idly by,

so my darkness
could see him fail,

and my light
could see him hope.

*Published in Shepherd University's Sans Merci Literary Magazine, 2007.

Written by L_Munro

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Published 21st February 2010 6:46pm
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I know too well wear you're coming from. Lovely literalization of a faint feeling i struggle to even recognize in myself

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