interphase

fastened
at both ends

feels like I should be
painfully
rent
in
two

a matched set
of impossibly identical
wholes

drifting apart

mitosis complete

instead
I rest
at peace

growing

like
never
before

undivided.
improbable.
preposterous.

and the nightmares
are
ending

for now.

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This week, let’s awaken from our Nightmares, or seek something else to inspire you in this time exposure of a woman waking from a nightmare on some random Netflix show.

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