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Deer Skull 

We mark graves for ourselves
Not for distant arrivals
But for our own returns

When we place a stone
We don't believe its weight will ever lift

But it does

What still hurts now seems to bear some load

Each grief is a member
That vaults the sky

This old skull
Is going somewhere
I'll never follow.

Monte Merrick

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