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Shared Ownership
The light and the shadow speckle the path.
My uncle's whispering holds onto his last sentence
as if our argument, uprooted, half dead, matters,
and as if the mathematics of ownership
proportion matters, and as if matters matter.
All wane. All dissolve. All are the love letters
written to the dear ego at the instance
of some authority, now shredded, burnt after reading.
The garden grows, but does not follow
the landscape we designed.
A shadow toddles this way. He sings
a drunkard's notion of a fine song.
My uncle keeps talking.
About the Author: The author of 'Postmarked Quarantine' and 'How To Burn Memories Using a Pocket Torch' has nine books to his credit. He is a journalist, father, and the editor of 'Words Surfacing’. His works have been translated into twelve languages, published across the globe.
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