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i can't swim
because i am afraid of drowning in deep water in a past life i lost my husband to the sea i had to raise my daughter who in this life is my mother i ran a boarding house i cooked i cleaned my mother/daughter was traumatized after from the death of her father she watched him drown in the waves when all i could think about was now that the captain had drowned that the remaining seamen would rape me and my daughter lifetimes later i get sea sick my mother is still my daughter and my daughter comes from another place a star in the distance i glimpsed in the in between while she longs to shine bright i peruse the darkness looking for answers she wants to connect she is the star in a constellation she can not shine without my darkness but she doesn't understand how i lost my light i swallow the nothing so she can see she is something it hurts my soul to remember when i was like her when i believed in a meaning when i believed that people were good we orbit one another in this vast space i am drawn to the past that other life when smiles were pennies found heads up on the sidewalk when lemonade stands were on every corner in the summer
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