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HOURGLASS
HOURGLASS
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sand escapes
from the hourglass of our lives—
each grain a ghost
the future thins
to a horizon line, pale
as bone-bleached shells.
time shifts the shoreline—
what was solid becomes sea,
what was sea becomes stone.
I stand ankle-deep
in the receding now,
watching footprints dissolve.
oldest grains glow
clearest: childhood sunsets,
first loves, last goodbyes—
all sharpened by loss,
all softened by the slow grind
of what remains unsaid.
The hourglass whispers:
“Every fall is a rising
in another light.”
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