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The sands of time flow through bones of children

i understand the Greeks

When they wrote of boys

turning to men as

“in the flush of their strength”.

as if the tides of youth,

had burst it’s banks

flooding childhood, like the Mycenae

against Troy.

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Published: Jul 8, 2019
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Tags: #iliad #troy #greek #achilles #patroclus

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