Optics

Photo by K. Mitch Hodge, retrieved from Unsplash.com.

Grief is like
shaded sunglasses
filtering the yellow sun

cinema glasses
animating pictures
in suspended reality

colorful kaleidoscope
warping tomorrow, in infinitely
shattered variety

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or a set of binoculars
magnifying things unseen
and like seeing our reflections

in a bubbling cauldron
where we gradually see ourselves
fading away and dissolving;

grief is like tasting first love,
you will never know its exact flavor
until you taste it.

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Published in the 4th issue of Novice Magazine (2022).