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Poetry: Bitter

Bitter is the taste in my mouth
when the facts are obvious
but no one shouts them out.

If I breathed in the scent of firewood,
bitter also would be my sense of smell
for a time. It would be no good.

And when my feelings start to wane
and wane they surely will,
I'll find a heart is still the same.

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