a long night fading

and I feel like

I'm going out

the way I came in


under a slowly

lightening pre-dawn sky

I feel as if

I lived in a dream state


for 50 years

and awoke to being the child

I was

but so suddenly old and worn


bewildered in the morning

of all and no time at once






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