A Poet's Journey

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A Poet's Journey
A Poet's Journey
I Sit and Simply Shed a Tear

I Sit and Simply Shed a Tear

In such an endless brutal year

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Bob Metivier
May 26, 2022
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I Sit and Simply Shed a Tear
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I sit and simply shed a tear
The ones I love so far from here
I do not have the words to pray
In such an endless brutal year

I read the memes the others say
And turn and slowly walk away
For nothing helps me more to see
Or makes me start to think that they

Have much at all to comfort me 
The songs they sing so out of key
And loud as hell they echo so
Down empty ha…

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