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Courting My Shadow


Wrapping the words

in silence 

tying them with a bow

Gifting them to

my other self

waiting still to know

Leaving them

at the doorstep

of one I’d chased so long

A thank you note

has just arrived

— those words turned into song

 

(Ronald McDonald House: April, 2024)

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