Poetry|Life Lessons

So Close — Yet So Far

When All Efforts Fail

Published in

Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

2 min readMar 6

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Photo by Raychel Sanner on Unsplash

Like the power of a
sudden tornado,
I saw it coming.

A red lever turned on.
An inevitable disaster
soon to be spawned.

Rita Duponty

Written by Rita Duponty

Writer for

Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

Author (amazon.com/author/ritaduponty). https://www.etsy.com/shop/ritareysdesigns/ https://www.clippings.me/ritaduponty You can reach me at dangime@live.com

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