The world either breaks you or kills you
She does her best to ignore that truth
with the lies she sings to the stars
and screams to the sea
as her body bows with the weight
of what she became
and all she might have become
The fear of fire
kept her from chasing the light
The ravages of risk
kept her from moving much at all
She arrives at the end
a house with all the windows shut
and all the doors locked
preparing to be emptied of life
and filled with all the souls
of the lives she did not live
29-March-2024
Tressa Lee Breen
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