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Innocence

A Poem from: 'To Live Again';
a section of the book:
"The Fifth and The Last Nail"

BY

Mahmud Kianush

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What were the first words

I made and used in Paradise?

Were they Peace, Beauty, and Love?

Perhaps not,

Because only when the Sun sets

And Darkness comes,

Can I feel the absence

Of what I have named Light.

 

If it was Thinking

That made me Human,

I think I have never been Innocent.

 

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