Steadfast

You’ll see me

Leaving by the back door

So as not to cause a scene,

But you don’t believe that

Because you know I’ll never be

Sincere enough to care

What others strain to see.

Circumstances have changed-

Massive tides roiled by your sea

And you never once lost hope

In a delinquent heretic like me.

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