Caravan of Souls

Her blood is in my veins,

Pounding through my arteries

With words and dreams unfulfilled

Like an undercurrent of poison

Determined not to fade into the expanse

But to hum against my skin and never be lost

To the riptide of if, when, and tomorrow.

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There are tears clustered at the edges

Of the sepia tones where she whispers to me,

Don't let me go. I have a name.

She knows me as I know her,

A floating body through the veil of forever

With the same German bones and proud, pursed lips.

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We are celestial sisters,

Twin women bearing the burden of life, love, and loss

As though when the moon is high, 150 years

Cease to separate us.

We are each other's craters,

One another's night sky.

The stretch of past, the fog of future.

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How long have we travelled togteher

This shadow in my blood and I?

Has it been so long that the slim line between then and now

Vanished into the stardust

Or have the other strangers occupying bone and breath

Usurped the solitary connection between us?

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Am I a caravan of souls parading through the night?

Do I run through forests carrying one thousand plights,

Cradling my train cars of unfinished fights to my chest

With bated breath?

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They are all crammed inside the cramped caverns of my chest.

Dreaming inside my ribcage,

All murmuring a different tune

And I am a cacophony. A dream undreamed,

A galaxy stretching its arms wide and gathering

The dust of generations just so it can breathe again.

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