4.29.2021

you were beautiful, too, and free of illusions, so why—?

If you kept walking you would, eventually, step out of this blizzard. You 
would walk to the place where even a blizzard reaches its limits. The ragged 
edge of its sum total. The place it stops and says, No more. 
 
And the sky, suddenly, would be, above you, unabashedly blue. 
 
But here, the flakes still fall in their slow motion, wearing their geometries 
like trances. Perhaps no two are exactly alike, but they are also too alike to 
be given names, too much the same to be granted lives. They fall in crowds 
in the world as well as in the mind. 
 
But you were beautiful, too, and free of illusions, so why—? 
 
Well, I keep forgetting. You never listened to my suggestions. Never asked 
for my advice. When I built my luminous prison around you, you simply lay 
down at the center of it and died. 
 

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