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Seeds cannot grow
when stored in a drawer
unnourished
they remain old
viable potential slowly dies
embryonic inspirations
that never fall
to fertile earth
shrivel to dust
never to be
a tree of life
no bloom of beauty
dormant
until their death
the unsown never reaped
waiting for the reaper
Ciaran Burke