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Earth
Prose from SHS.
We loved each other
like the ground and the sea.
We made one whole body;
A mass of smashed existence
floating together and apart
from all those other celestial wastes orbiting mortality.
We called ourselves the be all and end all:
Earth.
But we weren’t so big or so special,
not even in the time we took to foster
new beautiful things like love
and a fresh life together.
It’s not so simple it seems,
as being in the same space at the same time;
creating the same thing for different reasons.
How did I not expect,
his tectonic plates would shift
and lava burst through the seams?
It was in his nature,
as it was in mine to be burdened by that
inevitable phenomenon;
to boil in the aftermath.
Thanks for reading! If you like my style of prose, please make sure you follow the Bits & Bones publication, where I’ll be dropping short speculative non-fiction Mondays and Wednesdays!
This excerpt is one of many that I’ll be posting to Medium from the collection Strangling Heartstrings (a memoir in prose).
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