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COLOR OF WATER by MARJORIE MEEKER

First Line: YOU WILL BE THE COLOR OF WATER
Last Line: ONE DAY TO THE SUN, AND DIED.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;

You will be the color of water;
Your voice will be like the wind;
You will go where the dust goes;
None will know you have sinned.

None will know you are quiet,
Or fluent, or bound, or free;
None will care you are nothing;
You will be nothing to me.

Except a scarlet remembrance . . .
As if, in a dream of pride,
A poppy had flaunted her petals
One day to the sun, and died.



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