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By sarah rauch
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the door is locked
you hold the key.
The contents are sordid, covered now
in mildew, rotting in their isolation.
Why don't you unlock the prison?
Let the sunlight enter,
the spores shrink and turn away
the tangled vines twisting down
eventually to dust...
This is what happens
when light meets the darkened secrets
of our souls.
In prison now,
you with your memories
stagnant in your isolation...
...but you are so protective of your memories!
You guard and nuture these ugly spores -
feeding in the secrecy that surrounds them
thriving in the unexposed ground.
My memory was hidden also,
ugly growth, tainting the air with the stagnant smell -
as I ran, embarrassed to hide myself
from any touch of honesty...
...but I exposed my memories
shoveling out these clinging vines
throwing open the door, letting the secrecy escape
in a hissing mass of laden air
He comes – and helps me clean this ground
together we plant true-living things
that nuture souls,
not drain them.
In prison now,
you, Dad, with your memories
stagnant in your isolation
How I wish you would
unlock the door.
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