Saturday, December 17, 2022

trauma-based individual (no villains or heroes)

Gentle damage stretched out
over decades like pulling that
chewing gum out of my mouth
twirling it around my finger
when I was a kid. 
It was less gray then.
So easy to segregate
the devil and saint but
now I'm just a little bit of both
mixed and suspended in life.
Cycles and patterns stretched out
over decades like I am bent over
and trying release individual fibers
in my back, muscles tight with
clenched jaws and iron sides
hurt from laughing and crying.


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