The Fossil Record
i excavate my own personal history
with spade, shovel, and pick
only to uncover
an incomplete ichnolite
amidst the archaeology
of my life
my children
wandering this stratified world
without me
an epoch of
days
turned to
months
turned to
years,
all told,
an eon
which i try to reconstruct
by digging through buried
and ablated memories
of their puerile but now hebetic faces
the erosion of emotions marking time
in the detritus that lies between us
where i sift sediments
in search of sentiments
but find only
the fossil record
of a broken heart
i excavate my own personal history
with spade, shovel, and pick
only to uncover
an incomplete ichnolite
amidst the archaeology
of my life
my children
wandering this stratified world
without me
an epoch of
days
turned to
months
turned to
years,
all told,
an eon
which i try to reconstruct
by digging through buried
and ablated memories
of their puerile but now hebetic faces
the erosion of emotions marking time
in the detritus that lies between us
where i sift sediments
in search of sentiments
but find only
the fossil record
of a broken heart
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