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Running Dry

A Poem

By Atomic HistorianPublished 6 months ago 1 min read
Running Dry
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Scratching across the paper

My head bleeding into the emptiness

Black and red

Yellow oozing

I can feel all that I’m losing

Tiny bits of myself

Day by day

They fade away

Until I’ve run dry

And there is no more ink

To think

Why?

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Atomic Historian

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    Written by Atomic Historian