These Shades

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Shuffle feet
for winter's bane
is the warm
and driving rain

I hold the heavens
as my shield
and to tears
I shall not yield

For spears of light
cut deep and then
they pour the salt
on broken men

But I am steel
and I am stone
I hold the world
all on my own

When dawn invades
my comfy tomb
I pull these shades
and sleep past noon

(October 19th, 2017)

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