(1.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
know this
my dear,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
you will be a thousand different people<\/p>\n\n\n\n
most of them strangers
and few of them kind<\/p>\n\n\n\n
before you will ever be yourself again<\/p>\n\n\n\n
such is the cost
of loving after loss<\/p>\n\n\n\n
such is the sacrifice
that healing doth require<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and it will take the blood
of all thousand of your living ghosts
to someday begin anew<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but I promise
come the dawn of that new day<\/p>\n\n\n\n
you will know again
that the name of hope
is yours
and yours alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(2.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a true self-portrait
is painted
with our eyes closed<\/p>\n\n\n\n
only so
can we see
which vestiges of flesh
are uninhabited<\/p>\n\n\n\n
only so
will we come to understand
where our shadows weigh
when light decays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(3.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
dearest one,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
what if I told you
that time
is a tenderness<\/p>\n\n\n\n
that what is
now
that what has been
and what will be<\/p>\n\n\n\n
is just soapstone<\/p>\n\n\n\n
stardust<\/p>\n\n\n\n
form<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and stardust again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and so
there is no prison
to whatever extent existence dares take
that we couldn’t simply exhale ourselves out of?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
would that be loving enough
to compel you<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to finally let me go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(4.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
lullabies
are really just eulogies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
so loving<\/p>\n\n\n\n
that they redefine our goodbyes
into a promise<\/p>\n\n\n\n
that someone will wait for us
wherever it will be
that morning comes<\/p>\n\n\n\n
so come
give in<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and let Death,
Ocean,
Moon,
Dark
and all our other mothers
sing us back to the sun<\/p>\n\n\n\n
beloved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(5.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don’t think anyone
will ever really know me<\/p>\n\n\n\n
until they too have drowned<\/p>\n\n\n\n
in that moment
where drizzle turns to rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I couldn’t help but smile<\/p>\n\n\n\n
as waves of relief
crashed over me<\/p>\n\n\n\n
because I never did expect<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to finally be deemed
worthy
of such a tender end<\/p>\n\n\n\n
you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to finally finish
mourning myself<\/p>\n\n\n\n
just in time
to die alone<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and full knowingly
at peace
gift myself this way of leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
what joy
by which this Dutch alien
now awaits the rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n
by which
this reformed stranger
has since learned
to live again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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