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This woman shared that her greatest fear was war coming near her home.

To add some context, at the time of writing this, fortunately, neither her or her neighboring countries are actively at war…

Because of this, I decided it would be interesting to make the poem less about war, and more about the fear itself.

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Her greatest love was her immediate family.

I decided to represent that with them gathering around a table.

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I didn’t know it at the time, but I now think of this poem as a transition point between how I started writing these poems and how I would come to write them following this one.

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All the best.

— Hasse

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Nov 1Liked by Hasse

Wow, i absolutely loved this one

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Nov 1·edited Nov 1Author

Thank you, Bella!

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Wow! I am at a loss for words. The use of figurative language in this piece is arresting.

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Happy that it has this effect on you, Pleasant! Thank you.

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