the staying of dismissal:
he remains.
but still she is unsure,
and thinks that, perhaps, she granted
clemency where there was no
sincere remorse (maybe?)
there is no process
so impossible to untangle
as that of
strangering:
how it is people we know
become people
we never knew.
= = =
she stares, now, at
a piece of paper:
on it, test results that say
he won't be here
much longer.
and where it the doubt, now?
who is it she
has become a stranger to?
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Owen "Beleaguered" Servant (a/k/a Sibelius Russell) writes poetry mostly, with an occasional pause to have a seizure.
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