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bythebay

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Sand spills in through the windows and doorways,

counting the years and the scars.

Each month, a wind blows,

sweeping the dust and peeling the paint

from the walls; gutting the room.

Pain lingers, it dulls.

A wasteland,

a waste of sand.

Oh, flip the hourglass, would you?

Bring back the time.

Time only takes and I have little left

to give.

In a desert alone this room stands,

uninhabited and ...

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