(1. numbness &denial)

take it slow
repeat
word by word, letter by letter 
everything
 
I am lost
do you copy
echo, echo
do you copy
can’t find my way back
can you read me
 
stay calm, my dear
don't beat the dust out of it
you don't need to find any way
to be safe
you know
you don't need
(clatter sounds)

echo
I don't understand
can you repeat that
doesn't make any sense
repeat, repeat
out

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(2. anger &grief)

it was moving inside
it was crawling and spitting its mumbles and why

they couldn't be slaves without a master
so who slaved them
you, me
no
the shadows of the trees, clouds
over their own drawn

splitting and throbbing
they looked at me like a pain without a relief and they
turned around 
like a winter silent after a long shouted cry
and their look banished from the emptiness flew over the dark deep sky
and the forest stood still
while it died moving 
inside