I was not alive
until I wrote my own birth
to start writing death
I was not yet dead
until the pen left the page
and I found silence
If nature made me
then I will remake nature
and claim my new birth
I grew to fill pages
and shrunk to become a word
yet never changed
I learnt cruel freedom
and loving cages barred
all fearful, unknown
I drew my own map
devoid of directions home
but all seen was mine
When I returned
the ink was stained to nothing
and I found no path
I found a new page
still blank and all unmarked
but I had no more
Confronted with space
I wept deleting tears
and lost even hope
I prayed and hoped
for new words you would bestow
but we both lost faith
We had no story
but in time we told ourselves
a new type of tale
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