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April 15, 2015
By Atticus-Mortimer GOLD, Easley, South Carolina
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Pain strikes through,
like lightning on a dry tree,
igniting my nerve endings,
like a bonfire of intense feeling,
my eyes cringing like crinkling leaves,
my fists balled like charred back,
and finally my knees crumple,
like a tree falling to the charred ground,
as the forest burns around it

© Sara P., Lake Mary, FL

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