same same different
Because we’ve perfected
pretending,
we seem the same.
The subtle shifts
sleeping arrangements, bank accounts
divided time, formal conversation
don’t show.
It’s almost as if
we could march on in this sameness
for another 15 years.
Yet under my skin
my organs have been rearranged
my blood flows sideways
my mind catapults to places
once unfathomable.
Different
doesn’t seem strong enough a word.
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Very Powerful. This poem reads as a prelude to transformation.
Wow. Powerful, at once foreboding and hopeful. Change is coming. Hard change. Good change.