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Nostalgia

26 Tuesday Jan 2021

Posted by Ronald E. Shields in poems

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A poet said, “it is easier to die than remember.”
I say nostalgia is a ribbon,
or Jacob Marley’s chains,
and we are bound by the smoke of our past.

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