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this new selfless
is selfish
I'm a hermit/crab (shell/fish)
a shell game
with selves switched
still the same
shameful nerves twitch
words worthless
worth wordless
pitch perfect
is selfish
I'm a hermit/crab (shell/fish)
a shell game
with selves switched
still the same
shameful nerves twitch
words worthless
worth wordless
pitch perfect
Literature
Roadmaps
I have traced my fingers along,
following undulating roads
on faded parchment maps but
there is no X
to mark the spot
where you should be.
I have pushed my way past
half-lit tunnels of willow
leaves, tread over mossy rocks
and overturned each one,
searching for clues, arrows.
I have mapped the stars and
their trails that I might
never be lost - but I am wandering
all the same without
you.
I have studied each roadsign;
followed each one
to its dead end
and U-turned back
to where I started.
I have traced my
footsteps,
over and over,
searching for the place
where I lost my way,
but there is no path back
to you.
Literature
a lamentation
sometimes there is the murmur
of sadness in my hands. sometimes
my face is warmer than warm, and
sometimes this does not extend to you,
to where it ought to matter.
sometimes i think i am too small
to take wind and water into my stride;
sometimes i am the leaf that floats unbidden
into your arms, the breath of breeze
from over the sea, come to carbonate
your blood with my memory.
i am the taste of summer – tart and sweet
on a forgotten tongue left leagues behind,
over oceans you could not wait to leave.
there is nothing here for you.
sometimes i forget i am not meant
to love you.
Literature
DREAM
she laced feathers round her wrists,
saturn's spread-out rings;
and stepped into the sky-light,
pretending they were wings.
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I read this 3 times because it made my mind twitch. In a good way. Excellent. 😁