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    The Night is Cold and Bleak

    By Charlz dela Cruz

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    About this ebook

    The night is cold and bleak is composed of verses

    that explore the mysteries of

    love, shattered humanity, life, and 

    a fling 

    with Death.

     

    I hunger

     

    I hunger for things that have a soul

    If you have one, I will eat you... 

     

    I know a woman

    who, in order to breathe, writes a line or two

    of poetry

     

    I also know a man

    who dances, naked

    in the moonlight

    with the ghost

    of his beloved

     

    I ate them.

     

    I hunger for things that have a soul

    and I am starving

     

    Because when I show

    the world

    a beautiful

    red rose


    they only

    see

    the thorns.

     

    I killed myself

     

    I killed myself

    a thousand times
    in fiction
    so that

    I could face

    this life

    without losing

    my Soul.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharlz dela Cruz
    Release dateDec 16, 2018
    ISBN9781386608493
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    The Night is Cold and Bleak
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    Charlz dela Cruz

    Writer. Lawyer.

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