Friday, November 16, 2018

What You’ve Thrown Away



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Imaginary friends, discarded
once outgrown, upended
and forgotten by their blood-
and-flesh companions whom
.
they’d shown and who they
thought had also shown
a love which offered them so
unconditional a fit that it was
.
unimaginable they would ever
need a love additional to it.
But now these randomly
abandoned beings have begun
.
to find equivalently yearning
others of their kind. New
intimacies salve their burning
losses. Imagination glosses
.
its effects and predilections,
finds new ways to ride the bends
of its fluidities, affections
and desires. Floating past each
.
other on their river, they begin
to feel the quiver of a possibility
of love they’d thought was gone.
Might dreams love dreams?
.
Now they do. Which means
there may be hope for
what you’ve thrown away,
and therefore hope for you.
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