John Rickell - Windows and Mirrors

There is a world I know
Far beyond the window panes
Where others live and love
And children die by ten,
Because there is a world
Back here with me
That stares beyond
the window panes and thinks
of other lives and loves
And children dead by ten.

John Rickell

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