Poetry

A Drop Hasn’t Touched My Lips

In 25 years

Melissa Steussy

Published in

Black Bear

1 min readFeb 22

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Photo by pawel szvmanski on Unsplash

In 25 years

5 years, 5 times

I have yet to let a drink

Cross these
Rosy lips

They have smiled
And frowned

Melissa Steussy

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