A Cargo of Green Hearts
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you are enumerating all the things used to define yourself, all
the junk and sharpened spoons you carved out your little "I" with and then imagining each taken away one by one in the crow-hearted darkness when you are helpless and asleep strummed by the airwaves of dreams. to wake bearing one less suitcase, one less brick one less headdress of steel and weep maybe or search frustratedly behind the couch but each night the claws and silent robbery until the scaffold lies bare and you ask who built this? and why? but no one answers I did or because and the wind comes and goes through the tatters of your skin and at once you feel on par with the clouds who are no longer silent but throbbing with agency and intent, bidding you to rise and be like them, and if you hesitate before cutting the last string if your heart skips like a stone dancing sideways on a pond who will criticize you? hesitation is about balance, abundant when there is no weight left but the ohhh of the leap. Comments are closed.
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