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# Despair
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/despair/
- Published: 2022-06-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-06-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: The Fall was harshest on Despair whose wings are stunted She cannot take into the air ambitions blunted Snakes in the grass are her domain and her companion is Pain
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

The Fall was harshest on Despair  
whose wings are stunted  
She cannot take into the air  
ambitions blunted  
Snakes in the grass are her domain  
and her companion is Pain

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