Ashes

(From diaper days, hand me downs we didn't arrange,
and life as of late.)



We grow. Most of the time, up, sometimes, apart.

It was roller-coaster-like; we were up in the sky

We fell deep, progressed upwards, slipped into an abyss,

But the beauty of  what was or can be I will never deny.

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Love in the supposedly easiest-to-reach places,

is now painfully and seemingly the furthest 

My world was collapsing; this I don't hide,

but I thought it was in you that I could abide.

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But I found love so invisible yet so real

Intangible; but it is love that heals.

 And while it gets harder because you stretch further away

I have an anchor that helps me not sway.

 Blood ties? What blood ties?