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Rated: E · Poetry · Nature · #907044

gnawing bitterness- a metaphor

Bitter now the barren branch,
Worm’s slow gnawing of tender root;
Hollow heart
A wound where canker grows,
Creeping deeper,
Until in winter gale
The giant tumbles.

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