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Jupiter Grant
Jupiter Grant

Jul 7, 2021

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POETRY / POETRY PROMPT

There’s Never a Forever

A tanka trilogy on impermanence

Photo by SUNBEAM PHOTOGRAPHY on Unsplash

Forever’s a lie;
a fiction we tell ourselves
to ease the terror
of the final cessation
and the grave that looms ahead.

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Jupiter Grant

Jupiter Grant

Writer, Poet, Narrator, Freelancer. Living in UK & my own head. Send queries here: jupiterslair@gmail.com. Buy me a coffee here: https://ko-fi.com/jupitergrant

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