Friday, March 24, 2023

Sonnet Mapping

The map of me is not the same;                                     A quarter century built new roads to who I am.        

The destination a geography unchanged                   But Google Earth images read like an old trail cam.

Loving you more than the merciless sea.
My tears feed that interminable well,
Chalky white hyperosmolarity
Etching pathways, a GPS to hell.

Your hands once sure to find their way at night,
Can’t traverse the same lands upon the dawn. 
The paper atlas’ scale reads only half right
An X marked treasure never clearly drawn 

When young, pencil worked in our cartography
When old, we should trace those lines again with Sharpie. 

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