You Come Back In One Piece
Your hands,
which waved goodbye,
now ask for a second chance.
But the wind seldom brings people back
the way they were,
after their eyes have glimpsed God's face,
their souls scooped out of their bodies
and put back.
I can never understand you completely.
All those years I pretended
to let you pull me into your dark water,
I was only swimming in the shallows.
Now the trees are singing
of your homecoming,
as a different person,
a tattered stuffed dog whose tears
are all stitched up.
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