LEGACY

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The fracture in her eyes,

leaked with a strength

of an illegitimate ancestry,

covered up with golden mud

her iris told a story,

mothers, prophesying answers

I was desperately finding

his fists werent calloused

but his brows were due to frowning

his chest puffed, probably fighting

to keep at bay the horrors, father,

I was yet about to meet in life,

a mystery it is as for how

they got the courage to smile

I swallowed the uncertainty

because now I knew,

just as they are still doing and taught me; I

have never been so ready to fight.

-She gripped the cracked frame as a pair of happy voices from downstairs fills her ears.

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