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Rated: E · Poetry · Emotional · #2080124

A poem about the fragility of hope

her smile
brought comfort.
her smile
brought hope.
but hope is fragile,
shatters like shale.

hope is a great pacifier:
torturous when taken.
don't take to vice.
don't take to hope.
live for the now -
let life unfold.
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