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Lisa Ray
Life Cycle
It is a walk
a walk, a walk.
A winded path.
Stop. Stop.
Please advise:
stop.
Body hollowed
hollowed, hollowed
to a daily grind,
a daily grind
the daily daily
grind.
Only the light cares.
The light cares,
Stop. Stop.
until the dark strikes.
The daily dark strikes the light.
Stop.
We are
hamsters
tip toeing:
tip tip on the
metal wheel.
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Lisa Ray
is a Junior at Colby-Sawyer College majoring in Creative Writing. She discovered her love for writing as a young child, and mostly writes fictional short stories. This is her first time being published.