What swells within me: life and death, lust and revenge,
a remembered conversation, a long-dead loved one …
The rays of light whose sun shines only in me,
whose warmth comforts only those crevasses and valleys and peaks I can climb,
whose breeze-rippled waters call to mind fathomless depths only I can plumb,
whose bite refreshes as it is swallowed,
whose bite is only mine, can forever only be mine …
What swells within me this world cannot touch, cannot pollute, cannot stalk,
cannot criticize, cannot overpopulate, cannot befoul—try as it might.
I recline for a nap, victorious once more.
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From For It All
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Photography: Bench by yours truly
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