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Feb 2020
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I Woke Before Her

Atticus & Podcast Nation
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I woke before her

and she slept on as the sun rose

spilling light across our bed

she was an angel in my sheets

the girl I would draw

if given a thousand years

and only a promise

she might one day come to life.

 

xx Atticus

@atticuspoetry

www.atticuspoetry.com

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