You are born in the dark.
Blind, you bump
into b i t s
of who you become.Already in your first hours you build
a crust over the wounds
of your birth - gluing what broke
before it was whole. Already
planing the heat of your core
to dust in the blood
of your fingers.
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The Sun Shone at Dawn
PoetryThe wind blows harder under many shades of grey. The sun shone at dawn. *** A collection of haikus, tankas, poems about nature, climate change, platonic love, and any other poems I feel like writing or translating to English.
49 | You are born
You are born in the dark.
Blind, you bump
into b i t s
of who you become.Already in your first hours you build
a crust over the wounds
of your birth - gluing what broke
before it was whole. Already
planing the heat of your core
to dust in the blood
of your fingers.