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One Glance

July 15, 2014
By Setizia GOLD, Darnestown, Maryland
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Setizia GOLD, Darnestown, Maryland
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Favorite Quote:
The purpose of life is to search eternally for the purpose of life

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Broken chandeliers
and shattered tears
reek of perfume,
plague the ballroom,
unfold to a waterfall,
dancing in their fall,
feeling the gentle knife
sink into cold flesh

This is what it is like
to be seduced by fire
as cold as your eyes

© Rachel B., Phoenix, AZ

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