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The Cruel Trick.

 

It is the cruelest trick,

to offer someone a future,

a second chance in which

to make things right

in their heart; this now is the path

before me,

a cruel trick played out,

a future denied,

and last night I tried to dream

but all I saw was the face

of the ideal and the possible,

taken away.

 

Ian D. Hall 2018