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The Flickering Light

Light may not always be your friend

By Rachel DeemingPublished 12 months ago • 1 min read
The Flickering Light
Photo by Marko Blažević on Unsplash

It flickers, the light, and it claims

To brighten all shadows with flames,

But its brightness betrays,

Like a nightly death ray,

Drawing victims inside where it maims.

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Rachel Deeming

Storyteller. Poet. Reviewer. Traveller.

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    Written by Rachel Deeming