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Runaway Girl
March 6, 2019
The tears start as sickening curls of regret
behind vicious awareness,
coalescing at the waterline
into a blurry lens,
magnifying the message of hindsight,
until the droplets overflow their wells,
and roll away,
sticking to her cheeks,
and stinging her eyes,
a tinny echo of the punishment
she might deserve,
before the tears leap free from her face,
twinkling in the light as they bounce
to the cold ground below,
tossing up dust,
and leaving a broken, silvery trail,
that she wishes she could follow
back to when she could fix this.
© Rajacenna v., Vlaardingen, Netherlands
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