“This is how she found us/the past draped about us like a cloak”

Selkie Weaning Young (Redux)

~by Diana Khoi Nguyen

 

she did not know 

her past was our future

she ran through us

we all fall down 

passion interrupted 

faces of shame and fear

confused face rushing away

to something of timed importance

she sat in a daze

changed

realizing her new past

and old future

altered

she had been blind

to the love she gave

so lovingly to us

but no more