I’ve watched you change

from month to month,

from year to year,

across the best of your life

to the worst of who you became.

 

I’ve seen you be the person

you never wanted to be,

through the theft of your

passion and the growth of

the terror that’s shackled your life.

 

Did you see it coming?

Did you see the wolf enter the

back door quietly and swallow you whole?

 

8/1/2022