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Sheltering
( Tanka )
sheltering in place,
becoming life that will stay
on shallow fault lines
I know we will be alone,
the breakers keep us apart
◽️ ▪️ ◽️
I hear every thought,
po’etry that soothes, he’als
in uncertain times
a tsunami pulling back
but we know it will return
◽️ ▪️ ◽️
is this coming next,
living from a paper box
nowhere else to go
silently the rain shivers,
soaking masks, falling apart
◽️ ▪️ ◽️
but I can’t be there,
I leave the box to find food
limping past the lines
and everywhere the bodies
still alive they don’t see me
◽️ ▪️ ◽️
the sky caving in
my childhood canopy falls,
is everything lost
will birds rebuild their nests,
pity me, sheltered in place
sheltering in place,
becoming life that will stay
on shallow fault lines
I know we will be alone,
the breakers keep us apart
◽️ ▪️ ◽️
I hear every thought,
po’etry that soothes, he’als
in uncertain times
a tsunami pulling back
but we know it will return
◽️ ▪️ ◽️
is this coming next,
living from a paper box
nowhere else to go
silently the rain shivers,
soaking masks, falling apart
◽️ ▪️ ◽️
but I can’t be there,
I leave the box to find food
limping past the lines
and everywhere the bodies
still alive they don’t see me
◽️ ▪️ ◽️
the sky caving in
my childhood canopy falls,
is everything lost
will birds rebuild their nests,
pity me, sheltered in place
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