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You were not always a part of my life. by SilverInkblot, literature

Literature

You were not always a part of my life.

I imagine you at your father’s grave. I imagine you knelt, roses gripped loosely; I imagine your eyes were dry; I imagine you left and didn’t look back. I imagine you in the steel mill. I imagine you worked in dirty tanktops and jeans; I imagine you swung sledgehammers like croquet mallets; I imagine you wiping away the heat from your forehead and leaving to collapse into sleep. I imagine you as a gymnast; I imagine you as a schoolteacher; I imagine you as a child, fresh faced and fearless. I imagine you after the car crash, after the wedding, after the surgery, after your heart stops beating. I imagine you in a life without m

Lesser Expressions by SilverInkblot, literature

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Lesser Expressions

This ache defines my body – crosses, uncrosses my legs, traces fingers along curvatures unmapped by foreign travelers. This want defines my time – turns sleep into daydreams, matches my schedule to yours, walking beside, one shy footstep at a time. This love defines my life – shapes my body to be softer, my time to be flexible, my heart to be richer. The ache and want become sharper, but calmed, content in being lesser expressions of something far greater.