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Poetry: Enemies

by Joseph Love

My enemy
Away from me
Religiously
Persuasively

Tries to be
My enemy
through tyranny
and slavery

Through agony
Monotony
That enters in
The heart of me

But now I see
My enemy
Is not just he
But also me

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