Day 6: Healing of the Years

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It has taken me years

But I’ve been afforded ample time

To measure the weight of those tears.

The clarity shone like litmus dipped in lime.

I’ve cast my net into strange waters,

Trussed the tug of the undercurrent.

I’ve thrown wide open my mind’s shutters

And got sucked then tossed by the torrent.

I have breached the end of everything;

And tasted the fullness of nothing.

The burden I bore; the yoke I wore,

Like ice exposed to sunlight has thawed.

Aloneness ate up loneliness,

My feelings grew their own sentience.

I almost gave it all up.

But something wouldn’t give me up

For the world, so I dried my tears,

And healing gushed in riding the years.

Akpan