Ledgemiere

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There's something strange about

visiting childhood places with someone you love.

You bake them into the same memories,

your earliest, primordial ones.

 

Vibrant twists

of seagrass ocean rocks

a child climbs

ledges dips and logs

in a pocket dimension

by the back of your head

 

 

But then what now?

After the cosmic spark 

that one day crash landed

between you two,

what happens 

when it burns out?

Does your childhood go with it?

 

 

All of the places we went 

Cloud together into their own memory.

They don't kill the past,

But it will never be like that again

and you should prepare for it.

Roll up the windows 

and seal your eyes tight,

because when you emurge...

It will be a different world.

 

A new dawn from the other side,

Water flows backwards upriver 

to the place you were born.

You will return to these days,

but for now,

you must rest.