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Sepia tint
Faded photograph
On a lonely wall.
Empty slippers
Kissing the fireplace
Pretty girl
In sepia tint.
A frozen smile
From long ago.
Nodding head stops,
As the old man’s dream
Touches eternity.
The pretty girl
In sepia tint
Holds out her hand,
And smiles.
©Alan McKean
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