The same same but different
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Sep 1, 2022
I can take myself off to bed
with the view
that there’s nothing left to see
This horror in my chest
leaves me untethered in a sea
rolling and gently carried
to be placed upon this dawn
How to fit it all in
everywhere I look
I’m in stark surprise
I found my dog lying
with a crow that was dying
as I sat down beside him
he told me what happened
he’ll never be the same
to my eyes,
that shame
I wake crying
make a pact to go hiking
learn to dive and fly a kite
I keep picking up stones
broken glass and china plates
The longer I stay here
the more it dulls the ache
JJ Aitken 2022
