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  October 2022     1 year ago

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Beginnings

If I could go back in time to the beginning,
Before fate toyed and played upon my feelings.
Before my heart was ever torn and broken.
Before I built the walls where I remain hidden.

Things could have been so different now,
But fate is cruel...

– by Walt Benson

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The Hug

The Hug

If I said I want you,
Would your mind go straight to sex?
Would you not think better of me,
Than me whisking you off to bed?

Yes I want your body, pressed upon me tight,
To look so deeply in your eyes captive in your light.
To...

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The Hug

The Hug

If I said I want you,
Would your mind go straight to sex?
Would you not think better of me,
Than me whisking you off to bed?

Yes I want your body, pressed upon me tight,
To look so deeply in your eyes captive in your light.
To...

– by Walt Benson

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The Hug

The Hug

If I said I want you,
Would your mind go straight to sex?
Would you not think better of me,
Than me whisking you off to bed?

Yes I want your body, pressed upon me tight,
To look so deeply in your eyes captive in your light.
To...

– by Walt Benson

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Twenty One and Counting

It’s been twenty one years since that dark day,
A day where hatred won in life’s eternal play.
I still mourn all those that died that terrible day,
And when I’m alone and darkness looms I still cry as I recall that day.

God looked away and...

– by Walt Benson

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