Elastic Selves

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I have been many faces of the same quiet wind,
stretching across moments like silk over breath.
Each day I wake in a different gravity,
a self slightly tilted toward the nearest sun.
Elastic heart,
you learned to bend before you broke—
to mirror the weather of every room,
to find safety in shapeshifting.
But some nights the mirrors blur,
and I forget which reflection began the dance.
I am both thread and tangle,
both reaching and retreat.
Still, somewhere beneath the motion,
a pulse keeps time—
not a fixed point,
but a rhythm I can return to.
If I listen gently,
I hear all my versions humming—
not lost, not wrong,
just different notes of the same unfolding

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