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CONTRAST 1989

Epitaph

Take this flower off my grave
and keep it for yourself to enjoy.
I cannot penetrate this marble prison
and reach through this dirt
to take it home with me.
Don't water this grass upon my grave

with your tears,
for it Willgrow without them just the same.
(and I'm not used to it raining down

here anyway)
All alone in this world,
as I was in yours.
No mother or father .
no hope or home .
So many souls I tried to reach-
always searching for a friend.
No one to care for me ...
You, standing above me,
are you one of my many failed attempts?
(or maybe my only success)
Oh friend,
come be by my side,
for it is getting lonely.
Don't worry, though;
everything will be the same.
It's no different here-
no one notices if one day,
you're gone forever.
Only difference is
the Sun never shines ...

By Sandy Vogel

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