Count the loss
and try to reclaim
a broken trust,
desperate to regain
a precious moment
of understanding.
26:203
Dance into yesterday
where innocence lived
and the threat
of choosing
between safety
and acceptance
didn’t exist.
How long
will you continue
to matter?
26:202
Ring of sugar
to begin the rave
while the wail
of treachery
faults the
sandy grave,
salt still lingering
but hoping
to be
washed away.
26:201
Big eyes of prey
dancing with predators,
on imitating the others
and even out of synch
they smile
their whole hearts
in success.
26:200
Their past is stained
but they made you,
gave you kindness
and purpose
and a path your own.
Is it wrong to love them
when the whole world
remembers their sins,
the deliberate cruelty
they committed
before they created you?
26:199
Count the moments
where you risked
yourself
to discover a new way
of living.
Did it work?
Did you want it to?
26:198
Would you reset
a learning mistake
and start from scratch,
erasing all progress?
Or do you keep the error,
build around it
and watch what grows
as a result.
Perhaps something better
than perfection.
26:197
Alert to action
now a false alarm,
keep glancing back
and tracking time.
Will you progress
or admit defeat
till another day?
26:196
Analyse a feeling
or an imitation
and try to decide
what is real
for you,
and whether
that can mean anything
for those
who began as whole
and can see
all your flaws.
26:195
Search for my will,
a belief I would
fight for,
die for,
instead of a concept
I mimicked as real.
Do I even
have one?
