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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWSHXH7bXTo&ab_channel=M.Ward-Topic

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The dead of winter -  

The great equalizer -  

Buried, skeletons, 

Barren before the bleak.

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IV

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All of life erupts from nothing:

From the near nihilation 

Encompassed by 

The semblance of some void;  

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From the jagged craters

Of artillery shells; from the 

Crooked outlines

Of condemned buildings;

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From cemeteries; from concrete;

From crosses, laid into rows;

From beneath snowdrifts;

From under headstones …

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Flowers, 

Have yet been 

Known, still, 

Somehow

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To grow.

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