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Plasma Of Time


My heart bled

and writing

was an open wound 

As words

poured out

in hemorrhaged pleadings 

No suture

or hemostat

clotting their flow 

The nearer

the end

the harder it pumped 

In gushing

pulsations of

finality  

Bleeding out

what time

— could never give back  

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2025)

 

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