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Who I Might Have Been

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Who I Might Have Been
David J Walker

Ever since
You came home
Things haven’t been
The same

Things that I remembered 
Have been rearranged or 
Discarded/hidden 
in the mounds of dead leaves
Beneath the dying trees  
of my youth 

A small fire lit under the 
rotting truth 
Of that which can be set free by flames
Then who’s to say what they might have been 

Ever since
You came home.
My bathroom mirror has cracked 
Into a fractal filter
 
I spend my mornings deciding
Who I might have been
today

Copyright © | Year Posted 2021




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Date: 4/5/2023 6:31:00 PM
Beautiful poem. Indeed, "who’s to say what they might have been"? A food for thought.
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David Walker
Date: 4/13/2023 9:11:00 AM
Thank you Ryan

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