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Elyse Hyland
Poems
Mar 2018
The Martyr
The martyr stood,
shaken on the ledge,
with the courage of a god,
he jumped off the edge.
And he sailed down the sea,
as the gulls cried and cried,
and came to rest,
by his salt buried bride.
Written by
Elyse Hyland
18/F/Australia
(18/F/Australia)
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