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Grain Of Sand

Melancholy grain of sand

Why must you cling to my own hand

You should dwell with your own kind

Not against my skin to bind

 

I am becoming quite annoyed

All irritants you have deployed

I walk down the lonely beach

A water lesson I will teach

 

You do not wish to desist

Continuing to resist

I insist

Well then I will walk uphill

Go home to wash you to my will

 

O sand why must you crawl beneath

And cause all stable ground to cease

You fell me softly as you slide

Into your mouth—a pit—I glide

 

I wish you well but please get off

You are causing me to cough

More and more—your family

Adding to my misery

 

I cannot breathe and thoughts are dim

So dark it is—looking grim

My final breath is filled with sand

You are a pest—sand—to the end

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katy-walker
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Mar 18, 2010
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