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Fall

Seemant Kulleen
The Coffeelicious
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2 min readSep 20, 2014

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Departure

I knew I was lost when I got lost.

I got lost when I feared. (I feared when I heard.)

I felt afraid, then I lost. (Tenuous, uncertain of course.)

I feared me, who I was and had been.

I wasn’t nice, but I was.

I was a jerk, but I wasn’t.

I was scared, and I cared.

I moved through the world a bit blunt.

Here I was, wherever I was, it was where I had meant to be.

Ascent

Who had I come to be?

Two and one didn’t make three, just Two and one.

Then Two left, leaving none and just me.

Fog

There was enough room, so I brought baggage.

Then left it where it didn’t belong.

When two left just me, I found it waiting for me that long.

Descent

I got roasted. And Toasted. I never roosted.

(Then again, I never do.)

I had roasted and toasted others where they roosted.

I had roasted the roost when I’d had room.

Baggage can hold neither roast nor toast.

(They take up too much of the roost.)

Arrival

I had got there with baggage I didn’t own.

The same that I’d tried to disown.

It wasn’t lost: it was found. It found me. Or I it.

It was only lost because I was. (And I had.)

Reclaim

First, I didn’t s[S]e[SE]e[EE] it. (I did not want to.)

I tried to make it lost: it would not go.

It found me and stayed. (As baggage does, of course.)

Apologue

Stammered

Amy.

Jason.

Drew

Jessica.

Soar

Inspiration

Bionic woman: being on a boat meant no neighbours to be bothered by the loud and incessantly repeating plays of a song that constantly brought out my tears.

As true when I wrote this as the first time.

Tower

Layers

Thanks to Umar I for releasing Unclaimed Baggage under CC-By-SA-2.0 and providing the perfect context.

Hanga[rk]

Gratitude

Aboard and unharmed. Better, even.

The Principle of Charity changed my life.

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The Coffeelicious
The Coffeelicious

Published in The Coffeelicious

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Seemant Kulleen
Seemant Kulleen