Ablaze Spring 2025 2

Your Face

Emily Weidner

I think I see your face everywhere I go. Written in the clouds and earth and perhaps even the snow. Beautiful illusions; beating hearts so frail. Past shattered in the air

fallen with the hail.

Stalking me forever Melted in this haze Can you see me now

all places I must be. lost grip on reality.

eyes never leaving you? a heart and mind so true.

Somewhere in all the mess Watch me if you will at

all

times of the day. call mere child’s play. perhaps you will. I watch this heart spill.

Unfold in the chaos Wait for me now Blood leaks out And yet you’re still Scattered ashes to Watch and wait still a Shadow lurking so What if I see your

I

if

as

right here.

keep the fear.

too

risky game.

what

if I’m to blame?

face

because I’m the one fixed on you? in this, arms bound at the wrists.

Maybe you had no place in Blinded by the truth I chose to

hold in clenched fists.

Is this just a game or part of a greater show? I think I see your face everywhere I go.

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