A Sliver of Peace
Lost in the hedgerow cut of each green, spiny lie
Where the balance of reason slants sapiently awry
Stood in a maze that slowly bled my heart bone dry
A silken sliver of peace eludes my hook and eye
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Deceptive the greenery that bespoke the softest sigh
Felled to falseness without breaking though I did cry
A sketchy sun bends dark spaces alighting as birds fly
A silken sliver of peace eludes my hook and eye
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I dream of the primitive forest thriving cool in mid-July
Canopied coalescence caresses the wood nymph's ally
While human hands paint blue a scape of concrete sky
A silken sliver of peace eludes my hook and eye
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Within this dead-end alley sits one sunflower to defy
Summer heat conjures warm tears in a storm's fly by
Callousness plucks a soldier free of its post left to die
A silken sliver of peace eludes my hook and eye
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Idealism leaves my temple as time renders its goodbye
And humanities careless whispers haunt the wind's decry
A gift but for the choosing though man declines to try
A silken sliver of peace eludes my hook and eye
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