When my friend said, “your poetry is dark”

When my friend said, “your poetry is dark”.

I could have said, “should I pretend

That we don’t all end

In the stark dark, my old friend”.

But I smiled and whiled away more time

In drink. But now rhyme

Of you and me. and truth in poetry.

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