A Crown of Dust

(a cento)

4

                Every dusk,
the longing.


Out in the sky, a comet falls.

Some thirsts should not be quenched.

You might still have something to say to me..

the stairs feel as if they descend further than they do,
or feel like a room in themselves, an afterthought.

Is it foreboding if
            It's factual

I live in intricacies of the obvious. Into which I permit
The most beautiful thing about being
all by myself, is that nobody is there

One day we will be allowed to exist

It has been this way so long



Line sources:
Vievee Francis, Ayesha Asad, Isabelle Baafi, Rewa
Zeinati, Mebh McGuckian, Stephanie Anderson, Aditi 
Machado, Izzy Casey, Jennifer Espinoza, Marissa
Davis