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Beacon

All this sinking

Boats bashing into shore

No light blinking

What’s this beacon for?

If not to allow safe passage

If no mercy rests in their eyes

Then we turn and sail

To sea-filled horizon

And look back only once

With salt laden scorn

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Published: Oct 31, 2011
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