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Field of Torment


In the field of suffering, people bandage,
quietly enduring their eternal prison.
no hope for a spring blossom,
or a ravishing rose garden.
only foliage piled deep,
with wretched weeds,
tormenting thorns,
miserable mildew,
painful pebbles,
troubled twigs,
anguish!
sting!
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