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Desire

Oh how I long to be a dove 
   soaring in silence 
   high above the hell 
that chattering seagulls make.

Yet I am a pigeon 
     pecking noisily at crumbs,
   oblivious to the gulls who swoop, 
        without a sound, 
            overhead.

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