Obligations 2 (poem)
As we
embraceresist
the futurethe presentthe past
we workwe strugglewe beginwe fail
to understandto findto unbraidto acceptto question
the griefthe griefthe griefthe grief
we shiftwe wieldwe bury
into lightas ash
across our faces
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