poetry

Unsettling

an etheree —

Why
do you
unsettle
me? Why can’t I
look into your eyes,
your face, without feeling
pain? Is it the burden on your
shoulders? Is it that I will never
fathom your life, so different from mine?


This is in response to Sadje’s What Do You See? prompt — the photograph above.

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