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Aug 2016
though they'd not been born
as co-joined twins
a bond so close merged
in their relationship's fins*

one couldn't move without
the other being alongside
always together they took
the same stepping stride

co-dependent
in everything
even of mind?
co-dependent
in everything  
this their
bind

but there was a controlling
one in the pair
it was ******* the other's
living air

it
put
a
proviso
on
the
body
that
was
weaker
directing
it
to
be
its
spinner
speaker

the weaker one knew
that the mightier one
had its secrets hidden
away
and that it should do
what its co-joined twin
did forevermore
say

there's a sacrifice
to be made by the weaker
*in codependency
Elizabeth Squires
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Elizabeth Squires
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