Groundskeeper

in every version of her reality she always makes it to the end.

I.

and if I'm close to Suicide
it's because
she hovers over my grave
pruning wilted petals
before they fall

a bouquet of attempts to hand me on my death bed

I...
always...

make it to the end

...

doesn't Moon know that Lightning's tripwire is around her neck and all she has to do is kick the stars out from under her?

II.

doesn't Atmosphere know all she has do is smile as men slice open her spring?

...

and Trauma holds me hostage the way
the Earth reclaims a gravestone

if I sink down
far enough
there's
a field of green above me

III.

doesn't Venus know all she has to do is lose her voice for nine months to build the crest of a universe she didn't ask for?

...
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does Reality know by now that she's worth it?