Obligations 2 (poem)

Layli Long Soldier

As we

embraceresist

the futurethe presentthe past

we workwe strugglewe beginwe fail

to understandto findto unbraidto acceptto question

the griefthe griefthe griefthe grief

we shiftwe wieldwe bury

into lightas ash

across our faces

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