Fractured Parallels

She let choice go

and wept with shifting weights,

balancing act of

surrogated days.

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Laughter stroked the back

of pain’s atonement,

soothed the ache

of sometimes waking moments.

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She gathered tears and gelled

the fragments found

of broken self on heap,

a mortal mound.

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Inept repair for fractures

gone too deep,

a timeless wound

repaired by only sleep.

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Eased sidestep to another land

her quest,

paralleled worlds where

multi options rest.