Your touch

  

So delicate and deft,

How substance has always bent easily to your will,

But not words,

And not the world.


What were you thinking when you bought this piece,

Of freedom, 

Of slavery,

How strange and cruel the world 

we brought you into.


Each day you make it better.














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