Your Poetry Dot Com - to eat the night

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of whispers

but each
word a

silent bullet
offering

excuses
hard thoughts

are held
in lower-case

minds.
so, still

chewing,
with swallows

of dark
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to eat the night
Date: Wednesday, 9th September 2015 @ 02:02:50 AM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: ming

the hiss
of whispers

but each
word a

silent bullet
offering

excuses
hard thoughts

are held
in lower-case

minds.
so, still

chewing,
with swallows

of dark
rain.

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