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AK Asher Sep 2017
Just an inch
without a flinch
of a river flowing red.

But then I said,

Just another inch
without a wince
of silver staining red.
AK Asher Sep 2017
I’m from the Father of all,
whom I acknowledge in awe.

From the darkness in which we all began,
but none remember– perhaps it was September.

I’m from broken bonds
in which I didn’t know how to respond
while I was still in little pink shoes,
leaving me blue
and maybe bruised– in my head.

I’m from once uncharted waters
where I set sail as a daughter
as waters tossed and turned
and I questioned my return.
With no supporters or crew
I somehow made it through.

I will be from the unknown,
maybe abandoned, unaccompanied and alone.
But I will continue to glide across the sea,
even if it’s just me.

Tik tok, tik tok.
Slowly. Unintentionally. Like building blocks–
constructing where I’m from.
AK Asher Mar 2020
Pulled in a million directions,
No one listened to my objections,
Each separated and self-perpetuated
With no overlap, it left me entrapped.

— The End —