Free at last from the ties that bound me,
holding me down like an anvil,
wrapped around my hapless heart.
I’m not sure what love is,
but that wasn’t it.
It took some time
and some pain
to shake loose
from those
chains.
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Randy Baker
Poet, author, essayist.
My Vocal "Top Stories":
* The Breakers Motel * 7 * Holding On * Til Death Do Us Part * The Fisherman
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By Stephen A. Roddewig7 days ago in Fiction
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Amazing!
Breakthrough, amazing piece