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...>I do recall despite them all

Forty years to this date

As I drift along the soldiered pines

along the shore of the lake

They say time has a way of revealing things

Calling all things into light

Perhaps time to let go of a ghost that haunts me

in my nightmares night after night

I write my ending quickly

As rain threatens my recorder

thinking about enquiring minds

and my life as it's reporter

An old x marks the spot

on an old dead Pine

As I pull back the thicket

of creeping green vines

An unmarked grave

Still a curse to me

of a life taken

a life that just could not be

Driving out of the estate

I stop the car and look around

the place so empty and dark

acres of trees all around

I see the rusted Ax leaning against the old shed

Deciding some of these stories

Were better left with the dead..

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