No age
no age at all
never a justification
a reason to placate us
just an implacable, non-negotiable theft
of love, histories and too much still to be
the solace, a skinflint’s compensation,
is that for a short while you had them
and they had you
and that was life
but that’s as much as you get
to try to make it through
Sep 5, 2021
Sep 5, 2021 at 12:03 PM UTC
No age
no age at all
never a justification
a reason to placate us
just an implacable, non-negotiable theft
of love, histories and too much still to be
the solace, a skinflint’s compensation,
is that for a short while you had them
and they had you
and that was life
but that’s as much as you get
to try to make it through
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