Old

 

what she feels is 

no longer

yet the cells still remember

expanded in size but

not courage

wisdom another promise

time forgot to

keep

Life Debt

It was an unsettling, they said

a conspiracy of silence

to blunt the sharp sticks that

pointed at them

once before time

we felt the smallness

until we morphed into

strangers

and became what they hid

now we watch from the rooftops

balance on wires

impervious to the buzz and

the hissing rain

scavengers, they call us

a blot on the landscape

their duality lost as 

they pick and they

pick

at the bones of

existence