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Take the love that dare not speak its name reduce your thoughts to memories, lock them deep hide them in the silent vault that is your heart smother the singing bird you want to be snap its feathered neck, quick smart smother any signs of life poor wounded thing, better it was never born, if it cannot fly, then it should never be kinder dead than never, to fledge and leave the tree smash your heel and end it now, for it cannot be set free
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Jul 11, 2024
Jul 11, 2024 at 3:11 PM UTC
Nightingale
Take the love that dare not speak its name reduce your thoughts to memories, lock them deep hide them in the silent vault that is your heart smother the singing bird you want to be snap its feathered neck, quick smart smother any signs of life poor wounded thing, better it was never born, if it cannot fly, then it should never be kinder dead than never, to fledge and leave the tree smash your heel and end it now, for it cannot be set free
From my soon to be published 4th Novel about 2 married men in the 1950's who fall in love in a garden shed-I made one of the characters a secret poet.
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Jul 11, 2024
Jul 11, 2024 at 3:11 PM UTC
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