October Child

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October child,
all sea and solitude.

Hollow chest cavity stuffed with
salt and sadness and subterfuge.
Depths that want to drown my name,
to swallow and forget.

It floats with the tide,
but I don't recognise the ocean
for her waves anymore.

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