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Oct 2014
My mother and I
are twin fires

she, a controlled burn
I, a lost wildfire

I was born a mistake from a spark

touch our lives
the wrong way
and be silently scalded

we refuse to dim

without her I would not know how to burn on my own.
Chestina N Craig
Written by
Chestina N Craig  Long Beach, CA
(Long Beach, CA)   
808
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