Tonight, my perceived self worth irrelevant.
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Tonight, my perceived self worth irrelevant.
Today I am both nothing and far too much.
A dear friend is on a journey
They crossed an entire ocean
Hoping to pull themselves from another
Hero, trickster, what…?
Surely, one day this well will run dry.
We take on different shapes for different rooms.
My face has never felt complete
Blurry, shifting, I could never get it to settle
Into any one coherent personality
It prowls and paces on the periphery
Of the barrier I erected.
Growls are rumbling from its throat
as it flicks its barbed tail in irritation.
I face the monster in my cedar forest again, but something is different today…
…
This is my history
This is my life’s path winding between these trees
This is the home I was born in
This is the home I will die in
…