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Youth
July 17, 2015
Our youth is lost,
slipping away between frozen fingers.
Tinkling laughter,
diminishing into ashes,
swallowed by the starving wind.
Our youth is broken,
splitting into a million
cracks and fissures,
spreading and breaking
with the speed of a roaring fire
engulfing everything in its path.
Our youth is nothing.
Lifeless, hollow, a mere shell
of what once was.
The silence in the vast emptiness
is deafening-
breaking through the fragile tissues of
delicate eardrums.
© Sarah S., Poland Spring, ME
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