TNTC by Sammy Brigden

1. 
I looked for The Truth in every face 
               dug into eye sockets and soft flesh 
                            to Know Things and                           Be A Good Person and                          Fall In Love 
until the world was horrific 
               and still incomprehensible 
               and my fingers and the faces fell apart 

2. 
Some days I'm wise to unquantifiable edges 
               trace a plane of someone else 
                            fiingers through hair I hold my peace 
                            when nothing catches 
my own heartbeat quiets 
                when I stop watching strangers breathe 

3. 
The world rockets past and I stand with aching mind 
                but the muffled 
                                             blurriness… 
with broken hands I resign myself to 
                eyes-half-open wisdom 
                           true and                                               beautiful and                           thuddingly indistinct 
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etc. 
The tapestry of the universe 
is our minute and unceasing choices 
the ways I am like you 
like us 

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About Sammy Brigden
Sammy Brigden is a young poet. They enjoy alternately marveling at/reckoning with the vastness of the world, and doing whatever it is teenagers do in their free time.