Love Poem: The Protector
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Written by: Charlotte Boyle

The Protector

Injustice coughs its blackened breath.

And like bracken he wraps himself, prickly prickly, over the moss drenched mud. 

The fog receads, its spite dulled. 

Twisted branches fall, softly softly, leaving the gentle fern to protect the wild things that live beneath the hearth.