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"Is it really?"

(A response to Nicole O’Neil’s “A Family is Like”)

By Mariamawyte Assefa

Does it really become a full circle

Faded like a scent in the breeze

Lost lavenders are no longer purple

Repaired and repaired, but still fallen knees.

Bright light turned dark

Hopelessness.

Darkness, darkness, darkness

Is what it became.

Fake smiles and laugh

For what? For fame...

Sooner or later

The truth reveals

And all hidden

Are now appealed.