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In the Middle

August 9, 2012
By a_essie BRONZE, St. Louis, Missouri
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a_essie BRONZE, St. Louis, Missouri
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Fairy Tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. --G.K. Chesteron

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It’s a tug of war.
Either side grasping
desperately
to the ends of a rope
that has been pulled into
broken strings.

I am left
with but a cripple of myself.

© Jessica F., Bradford, MA

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