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With Everyone and Yet Not
May 22, 2021
Young ones
Old defeats
How lovely, these familiar wounds
behind the boy’s eye.
Too young to know they’re there
Too heavy to be his self.
“Hey Dad” he said
“What’s the world from the middle of a fishhook”
“Hey Dad” he said
“I’d love to be a lover”.
He’s with everyone and yet not.
In empty rooms
he misses the one that he loves a lot.
