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'Twas Crisis - All the
length had passed -
That dull - benumbing time
There is in Fever or
Event -
And now the Chance
had come -
The instant holding in
it's Claw
The privilege to live
Or Warrant to report
the Soul
The other side the Grave.
The Muscles struggled
grappled
as with leads
That would not let
the Will -
The Spirit shook the
Adamant -
But could not make
it tell -
feel -
The Second poised -
debated - shot -
Another, had begun -
And simultaneously, a
Soul
Escaped the House
unseen -
We outgrow love, like
other things
And put it in the Drawer -
Till it an Antique fashion shows -
Like Costumes Grandsires wore.
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