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sea glass and sand dollars

Illuminate my eyes with impossible outcomes

oh, my imaginary solidarity

someday our angles will tangle

and we will be rounded

worn down to sawdust

from the friction of

rubbing elbows

but not today

no not today

 

I wanted to be the sky

I wanted my molecules to

terminate and permeate

into mush

I wanted many things

that I could not have

and looking down upon

this sewer city with

lights and rain puddles

I realize how far

from the ground I am

how far from the ground I

have come

 

sandy shores and seashell hands

i'm struggling with the idea

of rolling up my trousers

tucking away the clean fabric

or letting the dust collect

onto the seams and hems

into the creases

around my eyes

I do not want those things

that I can not contain

 

and I see myself free-falling upwards

into the ocean of seaweed and pearls

if only I dared more

if only I tried

 

oh I wanna try

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