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Her love for gold

AMG 1980 (Lagos)

Elegy
Woman gags in her golds
Dazzling gasps in great girth
Now she's gone for good
Gord took thou, yet gait
As gods sempitanal, as golds

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This is about my late mother's extreme love for anything gold. Even when she became so sick, she would still find time to adorned herself in so many golds and smiled sheeply. Though regretfully, those golds were all pure fake.

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Written on June 29, 2023

Submitted by gabrabimbola on June 29, 2023

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Stanza Lengths 5
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