Open Sesame

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Open Sesame

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An easy day

Because I’ve made it

A combining of

Forgetfulness

With compromise

As virtues

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The pleasure in a cup of coffee

With a story

For companionship

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If willing,

A companion

Who forgets and compromises, too

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There we’ll reach and leave the summit

Of the day

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Tomorrow

I or we might have another

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C L Couch

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Photo by Martin Adams on Unsplash

Sunflower in the Sky

Geneva, Switzerland

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Sin-Eater

Sin-Eater

 

I don’t know what it means

To eat bitter herbs

Ones I wouldn’t like

Salt and bitter herbs

Is what the rite called for

Bread

Bread, salt, and bitter herbs

Then to be run out of town

So that for a time

A year, perhaps

There would be virtue

Lack of hellfire, anyway

The cost of sin

The bearing of it

Having been cast out

Too tragic and too easy

 

C L Couch

 

 

KaMan – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59215324

Salt Rising Bread