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Fragments

Mel Waldman

A 5-year-old hides in a claustrophobic room
a little tomb.

Hazel eyes fix on a blank sheet of paper,
pristine white, and the boy’s left hand
grips a ball point pen,
eager to write.

With his right hemisphere brain, he dreams
of a snow-covered universe,
a turquoise sunset,
a red dawn,
fragments.


The taste of crimson, the soft whisper of lilac,
fragments of sadness,
metamorphosis,
uncanny vision,

fragments of his life projected onto a blank
sheet, madness and sin launched in the
heat of creation.


Human fragments, feed, merge, discover, create
the man chiseled from trauma, emerging
from the Void, a mutilated soul, the skin
of pitch-black darkness, having
witnessed ineffable evil but
still blessed with the choice
between good and evil,

the left hand grasping for transcendence,
sweat pouring from its pores, like tears
and shards of soul, holding the
severed memory in its skin,
but clinging to blind faith
and scribbling truth until
flesh no longer breathes.

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