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"Conscience" by Joe DiMino

Long before I met you

I knew you--

sensed your gnawing presence--

shadow of my shadow

where the sun could never find you

shade cast by my shade--

Some call it conscience

a subtle voice

or prime

pricking us to attention

then nearly out of mind.