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The Deluge

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• The world is falling in again today.
• Of late it does that more and more, you know.
• This house's roof can't keep the rain at bay.
• I fear the flood will only grow and grow.


• Leaks multiply. It wears you down, it drowns.
• You patch and patch, but knowledge still seeps through:
• How many people give these tyrants crowns,
• but you don't want to know exactly who.


• Too many drops for your eyes still to track
• and yet you try to stay in this old home.
• You wonder when there is no coming back
• or when you'll be no longer free to roam.