i do not wake you

It’s no one’s fault, it just is.

Image: a photograph of a woman in profile, facing left. The horizontal strip including her eyes has been removed from her picture and is on the right hand side of the photo. The eyes and the woman are “looking” at one another, though she has no eyes. The text: “i do not wake you / to disturb precious slumber / with tears is wasteful”. Image by Gerd Altmann, Pixabay License. Poem by Ali Wyles, all rights reserved.

i do not wake you
to disturb precious slumber
with tears is wasteful

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