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Laying Working hands to rest

I hate subtitles

By AJPublished about a year ago 1 min read

Swallow down the words Even if they’re nothing but kind

Opening up isn’t hard, it’s not even a concept you can grasp

Be alone and bleed out without an audience

Immortalized as an ever present outline working in a field

Someone whose hand was gentle and whose head was strong

Forever be tangled in your convictions; always let spiders out of your house and share your supper with the crows

And then you’ll be a cowboy like me

Elegy

About the Creator

AJ

Because locking myself in a dimly lit house on the seaside and feverishly pouring my soul out on a typewriter is not available to me right now

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  • Dharrsheena Raja Segarranabout a year ago

    This was so poignant and emotional. Loved your poem!

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