Open the Window

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Nobody opened a window

until I did

The water poured out

my heart tore

I drowned after

I told the truth

when I looked into my

mother’s eyes

the water coating her face

in sobs

and her worry that

spiked

when I uttered

“I can’t stand living anymore”

I could not look

into my mother’s eyes

that held the image

of my corpse

so

I turned the tide

and brought birth

to myself

and the room

that had become my coffin

because I had

built it myself.