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Love & Duty
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LOVE & DUTY

The old man remembered his daughter,
that sweet child, now, suddenly, fifty,
and blushed into a gentle
suppression of tears.
It goes quickly, he said.

I thought of my own child then,
something she once said to me
in an outpouring of knowledge and grief:
"I want something I can keep!"

We live for a different answer,
in a question no heart can understand,
our lives passing in a dream.

Our love, too, has its demands
we who lived captive
must die free.


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 Reviews of "Love & Duty"
Reviewed by Maria Lupinacci
Reviewed on December 11, 2002
This says a lot...

"We live for a different answer,
in a question no heart can understand,
our lives passing in a dream.

Our love, too, has its demands
we who lived captive
must die free."

The whole piece is great, but those two stanza's...they are dead on!

Maria


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