23. Breaking

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Everything breaks,
you announced
and indeed
it seemed true.

For words crash
into something haunted
like the blowing wind
on stormy nights
or this vengeful poem
I had spun.

They escaped from your mouth
spelling goodbyes
I scattered them around
into several pages of thinking
to feign wholeness and relief.

But you were right.
As my thoughts and pen
go round and round
I started breaking---
like the wind,
forever torn,
blowing constantly
round and round.


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