Reduction To The Real Self

A Spiritual Poem

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the shadow of the best you
swaying like a willow tree

a future face
distortion mirrors memory

a smell takes you back
all the time it has taken to perfect

a refined reduction sauce
the tinkering without a recipe

all the while you were arriving
a ratatouille of your real self

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Thanks to Simran Kankas for the verdant prompt, The Real Self.