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- Article Title: What Comes Next
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It's not cynical to be wary
Of what comes next.
It’s life’s lesson
Engorged by the media
That small treasures – a leaf, a love –
Are flamed by match or missile,
Destined to be memories.
So ‘sunlight on a broken column’
Still summons tears
Not only for the end of all the histories
Nor even for the last man
But for the golden light that lets us see
Smiles and art and explosions.
Like the blind sun whose rays
Refract on the retina,
Our blind existence
Lets memory warm and warn.
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