Before the Collapse

 


I am a peculiar

JENGA of stacked wood blocks

Some of good fortune

Some of hard knocks.l

Launched by a Mother’s

Warm milk and whispers

Years before any

Inkling of vespers.

Wanting my own way

Intrepidly.

Licking the wounds

Of colliding playmates

Who used abused confused me.

Is it necessary to study,

Analyze the pieces?

Pulled out and held out

To incriminating sunlight

And turned in every direction

For good measure.

One piece, and another piece

Until my stack collapses

At God’s Gravity pleasure.





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