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Jul 2023
Tastes like gratitude, smells like sweetness
The lying eye of nostalgia, I know he doesn't mean it.

My life is green with patches if dryness, but it's okay. At times my crops may be dry around the edges or I will be thirsty from the labours of watering and pruning.

There will always be gnats and rocks that lie in the dirt.
Some days I will bleed and be bitten, others I will miss, misplace and mistake the common trials
Believing it to be my demise,
Some days it might have been
And one day it will be.

I know that common is full of cracks where unknown creatures crawl and where also blessings dribble and pour.
Through my digging and dancing, writing and writhing I know my life to be like a coin. Found in pockets, parks, places and pubs enduring marks, drops, trades and trials.
Valued by some and unphased by others.
Always with two sides
And when boiled down and looked at
Like with gratitude
Always gold
Lingua Franca
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