Excerpt:
From “The Decree”
Revelations from secrets’ past blinds the
sight in the present, as the mind shifts the
blame to soothe the past for the present’s use.
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Excerpt:
From “The Eternal Sacrifice”
Truths presented cloaked in one’s omission
rarely remain hazy, but a puzzle
for the recipient to unlock, as
truth for the bearer recedes, clarity
in fragments will always surface in time.
Excerpt:
But, the tree grew anyway,
healing from the switches
taken to its base,
growing during the rainy seasons
when we nourished it.
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Excerpt:
I dug deeper into the earth,
severing roots that were never fully connected,
ones that I thought that were a part of me.
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Excerpt:
my side of the garden endured,
as I scraped back bare soil:
the earth I once remembered,
the remnants of what I started with.
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Excerpt:
Matter weathered
by the elements,
crumbling like us,
to the ground,
where we both originated.
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Excerpt:
Alone,
a prisoner of my own making,
I allow you to keep me hostage…
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Excerpt:
I hold myself from the edge
not so you can be the one to save me,
but save myself from you.
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Excerpt:
So, I left the table,
seeking another restaurant,
only to have them follow me,
said that I could never leave,
until I told them
I never asked them to stay.
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Excerpt:
I put myself
inside
to flee you,
only to entrap myself…
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J.L. Smith 