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Bodies

Bodies

A short poem

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Dominique Side
May 10, 2025
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Bodies
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There are so many fields of battle in the world today….

Bodies are not the only things we leave on battlefields.

There are all the dreams, too,

The hopes that gave those bodies life until the point

When another reality took over.

Dead dreams don’t leave a smell,

They can’t be scooped up in trucks

Or photographed for headlines.

They don’t decay at all, rather they dissolve

And disappear into empty space

And leave no trace behind.

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