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Grow Up


Pieces of love 

Like Water

Grounded 

 then 

Up 

Roots 

To soak 

Up 

More love 

Pulling leaf over leaf 

Up 

To small caterpillar kisses 

Which turns to soft fluttering 

Up 

More light 

With hollow bones 

Up 

To eventually nestle in

Waiting to be made up again 

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