Puzzling
This simple puzzle
that used to hold some sort of spell
like you once did so long ago
comes to light tonight
while I rummage in the search of looking
for something to entertain the emptiness
shout me with
end I suppose
we all move on inevitably to other games an chances
maybe it’s because our hands grow worn in
tired an thin from feeling
the same shapes an parts over an over
gaining in the loss
of only becoming more familiar
promising nothing
but what we knew already
to be not enough
and the puzzle’s just another name
for something that happened to us
for we solved all our mysteries one after the other
till there was nothing left
but this puzzle with its mandalla middle
its intricate collection of water color patterns
running and flowing lighter
as it pulled itself in towards the center
where a light eye with a small picture of
the planet earth swam in a sea of blue
inset in the iris
some nights long ago
after I had completed the picture
and sat content
I could have sworn I saw faint cloud shadows
form an gather around the pupil
darkening one side
almost forming a perfect tear.
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