Poetry: Looking in the mirror - by Michael Raymond

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by Michael Raymond

Created on: September 08, 2008 Last Updated: December 12, 2008

Poet To Cynic

Purple hue of sunsets, timeless laughter, moments
Of love and passion and yet more could I write.
Emotions worn like fresh laundry, vulnerable
To the stains of life, so readily soiled.

Time - Thief! - steals passion's fire
Or at least the needed magic words

Continuous sensory assaults
Yield an unwitting change
Naught or less of poet
I wear the garb of
Cynic

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