Atlanta Black

Was your life worth dying for?
Did you stare down a wolf at the door?
Like you carried the keys of the cross
And covered the cost
With only your innocence

Tell me young man would you say
When the end was a moment away
You swallowed the pain without any regret
And settled your debt
If nothing is permanent
Was your life worth dying for?

Dying For | Rain City Drive

Louise Glück, from “Unpainted Door”, Poems 1962-2012 / Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals 1897-1909 / Charles Bukowski / Benjamin Alire Sáenz / Natalie Wee, from “Lonely,” Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines / Chelsea Hodson, from Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays, “The End Of Longing.” / Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall / Brenna Twohy, from “I know It’s a Little Late,” Forgive Me My Salt


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