body swap
for a moment
i glimpsed
into
the horizon
and i had become
you
and everyone else
/
it was a thing of beauty
a thing I could never forget
for it was monstrous all the same
/
i realized
under forest trees tinged
by pine nectar
that we were all
the same
/
i awoke
got up
started walking
my thighs were aching
my back was crooked
i could not see
it was dark
still
despite the glow
scintillating
behind clouds
/
i shed my skin
draped it across the ground
/
finally, i cried
/
this time
it hurt
to be born
again
Author’s note: This standalone poem is also part of a poetry collection that forms a short story, named ‘Love, Death’ — you can read the collection in ascending order on Medium.
About The Author: Author of over 20+ web-serials & novels, published by Tapas.io, recent addition to the Wattpad Stars program, and Winner of Tapas’s 2018 Summer Writing Competition, Beau Van Dalen’s stories have amassed a total of over one million reads online — between short stories, poems, novels and scripts, he can always be found with a pen in hand.
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