Layered Fragments, Becoming Whole

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Good People

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Minuscule 
fibers of your being
shred
in whispers
runs into time-
passport photo re-taken
one decade in
no longer
a child

you've rebuilt into each version
to make space for another
layers shed
as the rot
crumbled
feeding the earth
the demand for it, even
as you are unaware

sinew stitched
over and again,
thicken
more fluid then
before

you see
if you can
then


though

the soot pushes in
doesn’t it?
as darkness chokes in silent decibels

multiple truths in parallel
inside beauty
turned
out

I envy you with care