Pome: Each Time You Are Defeated You Show Yourself You Are Not, Said The Parson To The Nun

Parsimoniously

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Who is not defeated??? Pic: Paradisio Publishing

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Each Time You Are Defeated You Show Yourself You Are Not, Said The Parson To The Nun

when we are gone, faded from the photographs we once owned

the legends we constructed expunged near instant

the stuff that delighted and troubled and stabbed and made the earth tumble - vanished

what is left is zero; the next and the next to be the same; father becomes son becomes father; lifetimes lived in a second; days passing like centuries; a universe of crimsonblue skies forgot

the lanes still dusty

the grass sunblanched

the birds will not recall you and neither will i

so who does???