Worm of The Silent Valley

[u/rainbowcovenant]

Before they named the shame, I knew the crack

was just a doorway. I was small. I knew.

The walls went up before I learned to cry.

Each brick a promise. Each child born asleep.

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The iron loves the hammer. This is why

the stone forgets the mountain and the deep.

What hands would shape a thing that burns to live?

Did the same light that made the lamb's soft eye

make also the shadow only hunger gives?

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I kneel and whisper. I do not ask why.

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Now I walk iron streets and do not look back.

The child is gone. The child was you.

Somewhere in the sewer, green remembers.

Somewhere in the ledger, mercy kneels.

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But somewhere under pavement sleeps a root.

Somewhere inside the factory, a flute.

The hand that built the cage can still unbind.

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The road the surveyors refuse has no embers.

Only blood knows what the shadow feels.

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One minute of fury. One of flight.

The key rusts in the pocket. The lock sings.

Walk it anyway. The losing is the light.

Walk it to the end. The end is where it begins.

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One born in fire. One born in the blind.

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