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some lives can shape other lives
people teach others people
mentors plant seeds
that become branches
growing to boughs
eventually becoming trunks,
firm seamless structures
giving a person support
vigour, strength and shape,
now with all my mentors
dead, their teachings
still course within me,
entrenched verbal mementos
race through my blood,
threading veins and arteries
like sap as a pulse
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© Graham R Sherwood 05/23
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