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Close To The Edge

March 17, 2013
By other BRONZE, Queen City, Missouri
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I paint pictures of when I will fall.
Will it be soft and swift?
Will it hurt?
Will I do something I regret?
All I know is that it is
Close.
I feel it teetering on the edge of the
Mahogany table in my kitchen, like bumped
Glass.
My sanity.

© Janessa B., Kannapolis, NC

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