Moth (Flame)

In 1999 or so, I was drunk and missing my brother who had died years before. I wrote this. I am not a poet.

Shane Peterson
2 min readApr 6, 2022

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Where is my ending? Tell me what it will be.

It walks always silently beside me, and yet is never in sight.

How will I fall? And what will fall as a last fatal lot for me?

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