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The River of Blood

   

      Imagine

       Your Parents, Behind You

      Each With A Hand On Either Shoulder

      Their Parents Each With A Hand On Either Of Their Shoulders

      And Then Their Parents Each With A Hand On Either Of Their Shoulders

      And So On, And So On, And So On, And So On, And So On, And So On, And So On

      Each With Their Own Dreams, Desires, Disappointments, And Traumas

      Their Traditions, Cultures, And Connections, All Carried Down

       Through The Body, Through The Blood, And In Their Hearts

      Consciously & Unconsciously, Healed & Unhealed

      Waiting, Quietly, For You To Come To Be

      And What They Were Unable To

         Can Be Yours To

      Heal

      For All

      Your Days To Come

      And For Those That Come

      After

    ❤️

Promised

and she says its all time

time to heal the wounds of old

time to allow her heart to open

open enough to let this love in

but time passes us by

passes me by

opens me up to other ways

ways of the dead & dying

ways of protection

the heart breaks the same

inside of time

as it does outside

the chest caves the same

the words weigh the same

and the pain lingers the same

i've wasted plenty of time

passing time in ways that didn't serve me

that didn't protect me

that didn't allow me to love

love like i wanted to

like i needed to

like i was put here to

everything

in me, in you

black

and white

just like they taught you

these places leave us hopeless

these hearts leave us isolated

but it all ends the same

numb

loveless

the same as

everything 

time

promised

us

to feel

here

ⓒ 2013 Shawn Michael Quinn

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