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Faux Roses

Coarse dusky pink petals
sprinkled with fake crystals
promising a forever
but, smells fake...
I'd rather keep it real
even though it'll fade
in a day or mostly two,
its sweet scent will linger
forever in muse...

🌷(1) 

love   fake love   reality

â—„ Moon

Rhetorical questions â–º

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