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Monday 6 March 2023

Final Photograph

It is in the eyes

The eyes are where I see

The formation of what strikes me now

As vulnerability


I suppose I could say

That the whole body language

The entire persona reflects

What I see, both within, also behind the eyes


Yet it is the vulnerability

Of the soon to be decisive

It is the bathing in that place

From which the strength to act will build


Just as hate is fuelled by love

Then so the vulnerable

Are able to grow, to explode

To allow themselves to find life


Just as pulling back the catapult

Gives energy to the missile

Then so having been confined

Gives extra force to the eventual release