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To Torment

Truth & Temptation

By Shane McDermott Published 3 years ago Updated 3 years ago 1 min read

The teachers tried to teach them

To take the trail, to tell the truth

The tykes they told their teachers

They’d tell the truth throughout their time

Then those tykes they turned to teenagers

Time to test the troths they’d taken

Trouble tempted those that teetered

Threatened to take them to tumult

Though their teachers thought they’d taught them

To take the trail, to tell the truth

Temptation took those troubled teens

To tribulation, to torment

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Shane McDermott

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  • HandsomelouiiThePoet (Lonzo ward)3 years ago

    Nice

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