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Gray Matter

September 4, 2015
By Aust18 SILVER, Centennial, Colorado
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Aust18 SILVER, Centennial, Colorado
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Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.<br /> - Ellen DeGeneres

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Dark expanse stretched
before me. Flickering lights
like lost souls,
broken headlights calling out for help.

Distance imperceptible, unconquerable.
Honeyed sound trickled
in my ear.
Ornithogalum
blooms scattered before me, yet
the truest astral body
lay by my side.

But, what was this expanse?
Not that I see,
hear, or feel.
But, that lies behind my gaze.
Tissues and charges,
almost doesn't seem … real.

© Dean W., Hinesville, GA

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