you can’t restore the land bridge
that sank beneath the ocean
don’t stay to fight erosion
that shrill arrow formed a ridge

though we will walk along it
we can’t plant a tree back when
while you wish you had again
i write you a new sonnet

once a high school assignment
now my only medium
it finds me just as i do
when i face the tedium
of my spinal alignment
and use it to support you

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