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A spider crawls up the well,
Slowly, climbing,
With every inch, an effort so unmistakeably pinched
Inch, by, inch
Step, by, step

Torn down in the dark, bottomless hole
Never to be known save for a single drop alone
That revived it from death

It gained the energy to climb up the stones
The grey stones
The cobbled grey stones
The weathered cobbled grey stones
Which smelled of loss

For many a time
When spiders just like that one tried to climb up to the sun
They
f
e
l
l

Back down to the bottom of that gloominess
Never to be seen by the radiant sun
Or the moon that shone so bright that night!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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