An Imprint

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I've become the breeze
over the scorpion
through the sands, an imprint
of what should've been—Your bay—a desert now, an ash of certainty.

Shadows ingrained beneath me,
fused in abrupt heat.
You're meant to float—and I'm no longer able to share this puddle,

and amble in darkness, simply. Now,
I hold the flint
never to strike your eyes in moonlight.

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