The first of many things To make me seek the Metaphors within, A book at 17;
My uncle’s death at 18 Stripping a 14 year Me bare, Ripe
For a Green majick To root its souil Within this fertile decay ~ now Believing I tainted Plowing deeper in two Labyrinthine catacombs
Buried deep within the shallows; Soiled Sun die A ghost. Undie- Agnosed Dead within the dirt And drowned amidst an ocean I found a bubble a mist The mud Swimming until the leaving grew Blossoms I breathed With in me;
By John Green And Me. Thanks to “The Fault In Our Stars” And the beauty of Samsāra.