Turning Old
The more I try to hold onto 21-
The more that year becomes mangled.
The more that trauma feels unfinished…
False implications that I thought were connections.
I am losing a sense of renewal.
That past is both hiding, yet infused within.
I am always looking for some signs of transformation to hold onto.
But I am constantly running into that old fate.
Always fated.
Always trapped in fate.
Except when I was 21...
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