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Skimming the skimpy Hope:
2005-09-04 at 1:28 a.m.

I hide behind these sounds
to mask insecurity and insincerity

I hear we're all the same on the inside
but somehow I find that hard to believe
when I see on the News how different
we all are on the outside.
I find it hard to believe
that the monsters I hear about and read about
can be of the same flesh bones sinew blood
that I am because I don't think I could
ever change and become a disease.


I wanted to build a raft yesterday
to push off into the ocean
to discover how much of my body
really was made of water
and what part of me would meld into the sea
and what part of me would dry up
and become a solid calcareous lump
left to harden and mineralize
on the surface of my raft.

I think my heart would be the first to go.
Then, my eyes.


© J. Bernhard

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