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Welcome to This Awful/Awesome Life! My name is Frances Joyce. I am the publisher and editor of this magazine. We'll be exploring different topics each month to inform, entertain and inspire you. Meet new authors, sharpen your brain and pick up a few tips on life, love, entertaining and business. Enjoy and please share!

"Whispers in the Wind" A Poem by Fran Joyce

Truth stood atop the mountain bathed in transparency

Until a lie, whispered in the wind, became a gale.

 A falsehood creating a cataract of uncertainty

Clouding and challenging truth’s ability to prevail.

 

Perched precariously near the edge staring into the abyss,

Truth  screamed against the wind silenced by its own roar.

The lie, now confident of victory, began to shout and hiss

Abandoning its whisper, letting it’s falsehoods soar.

 

Truth suddenly stopped screaming; it whispered in the wind

Penetrating the chaos with a message heard by all.

The lie continued its bluster until the very end

But Truth learned its lesson, and whispered above the thrall.

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