Love Poem: Sixty Per Cent Water
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Written by: Vernon Witmer

Sixty Per Cent Water

so much beauty 
in this world 
that I must blink 
with astonishment
to hold back my tears.
If I could not blink 
I fear, sixty per cent 
of who I am, 
would leave me, 
in their abject eagerness 
to kiss the earth.