Pain & Joy
If the pain is real, so is the joy,
MICHAEL STEWART
If the pain is real, so is the joy,
The Winter Palace sleeps in a cold blue dawn of stillness. Oh that it could sleep forever like this, frozen in time. Hard is the soil. Still is the air Gentle the sky And when the morning breaks that it should stay undisturbed. Oh morning do not come and bring your horror. But morning broke…
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