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Unknowing

by Ian Whiteley

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Unknowing

 

ghost brother

ghost sister

 

twins

two years before

 

unable to fight anymore

they gave up their tiny breath

to history

 

she never spoke of them

in anything but love and memory

of what could have

should have been

 

never tripping

over regrets

at what came after

 

me

my brother

our family

 

they had names for th...

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Wednesday 22nd February 2017 5:01 pm

child death   twins   brother   sister   ghosts   mother   loss

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