The night you were born

a portal between Earth

and the Other Side opened

for a moment,

in a place where time

can’t be measured,

your grandmother

and you met.

I saw you before I met you,

Knew you before I held you,

Your dewy skin fresh from

The world you left,

The one your grandmother

Now entered

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The truth sometimes stings,

A swarm of bees breaking all the tender places

You falsely believed were protected

But after the tsunami of pain,

After the deluge of emotional stars stops spinning

A graceful quiet emerges

A knowing that causes us to stand a little taller

on ground that suddenly seems a lot firmer

The house of mirrors

Exists everyday,

Pouring our assumptions

Into another’s soul

Consuming our fears

As fact

Until what is real and unreal conflate

Into a dish we don’t recognize

#thefriendshipdiet

#assumptions

#fear

#theshift

#perception

#relationships

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Children are watching:

Invisible antennae

digesting the radio frequency

of our kitchen and streets,

tiny hands clinging together on

scraped knees,

hungry for the sound of unison

#thefriendshipdiet

#weareallinthistogether

#foodforsoul

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