Stephen Kata Poems

As time goes by, if you learn anything,
you empty your pockets bit by bit
of everything you thought you had to have,
until finally, there is nothing left
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You repeated truthfully,
even passionately:

“In sickness and in health, ” and
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There are no real heroes,
heroines or villains—only people,
flawed and unfathomable.
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Just before dawn, when the first fingers
Of light are brushing against the sky,
something beckons.
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