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PILGRIM by ALLETAH DICKENSON

First Line: LET ME STAND
Last Line: OF AN OVERBURNT ALTARCLOTH.
Let me stand
In the outer recesses
Of your heart's shrine.
I do not wish
A swifter entry
To your soul
Than by pain-marked steps.

For those who enter quickly
Sooner taste the ashes
Of an overburnt altarcloth.



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