Did I really think I was different
from stiff brown leaves
blown clattering down the road?
Did I really think I was not the same
as ancestors of my ancestors;
boy, girl, wolf; boy, girl, wolf; seated around the fire,
eyes alight with dreams of forests?
Did I think I was longer than memory,
taller than my shadow?
Have I not bled from birth; solely into Earth?
How did this escape me;
my loosening grip on time?
These tenth-month questions
I ask the Sun.
Again, at night, the Moon.
Lost, naked, tremulous,
I assume obsequious postures,
terminally disingenuous.
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These question cast a long shadow, sun or moon.*
We do so wish to be more. This echoes through the ages. *
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