Have you ever stopped and seen the living rock?
How something alive
could seem such a stone
How all of your blood
could flow through a block.
What good is your heart
If you’re not its home?
Then what does that make you?
If you can’t help but wonder why
your tongue is the place
that can’t decide,
and every noise it makes
comes out like a lie,
appearing half-hearted
to either side
of twenty-some bricks
in your soul’s divide,
while floating in sediment is life;
then maybe the wall
isn’t something you’ll find.
But that does not allow
you not to try
to invent new words
that help define
what it means for you
in your own time
to feel liminal
and alive.
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