IT changes you. The doorway you can never not have stepped through. The words you can never not have said. The moment you can never not, not have been there. The silences you can never really fill. You are changed and made whole by them.
And without you in the room something shifted and moved and sighed itself into a new alignment. They’d made the decision for you. Because you weren’t there. Because you weren’t ready. Because you didn’t.
Because you didn’t. Because.
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Month of Poetry, this entry inspired by SA Writers Centre Summertime Inspiration prompts
creating art in the desert 