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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!

"Forever Unfinished" A Poem by Fran Joyce

Our feet complete the intricate steps of duality.

You attempt to lead. I move away refusing to be twirled.

I’m not delusional. I’m merely dancing with reality.

Your truths incompatible with my imperfect world.

I hunger for light. You pull me toward shadows.

We’re swallowed by darkness as the music slows.

 

I cling to the spark, a remnant of the flame.

 Love freely given; passion accepted as breath.

Extinguished by an arrogance we refuse to name.

Feet stubbornly in step: souls spiraling toward death.

Hearts ripped out, discarded before the music ends.

Our dance forever unfinished; wounds we’ll never mend.

 

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