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lil  ·  3648 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's Washed up on Your Shore?

  I washed up on your shore
  and discovered it was a foreign land
    and slowly
  slowly I learned the language
  of coldness
  and distance
  and drifted on

  and washed up on another shore
  where masks were worn 
  by all
  I learned the language
  of shouting
  muffled shouting
  hands on ears
   I drifted on

  and rode ashore on a wrecked ship
  a tempest-tossed, Twelfth Night shipwreck
  mistaken identities, disguise
  a comedy of errors and silliness

  it seemed like a good place to rest awhile
  and wait
  for the rainbow.