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Created on: June 01, 2009
The Distance:
Far off alone in the distance
Is a figure of vast distortion
Though the image is faint and weary
I see what seems an animal
As the distance between us grows short
I see that it is a man
Even ever so closer
I see that it is my brother
And when I stop to have a word
I find the figure is me
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