Simmering

Simmering

The birth of Jacob is very painful to me.
It's taken this long to approach it -
even so, my mind is trying to sidestep it,
hoping I won't recognize it as my own,
or it won't recognize me.

It's very painful -
it was the beginning of a new life and yet,
it seemed as if it were the end of the world.

How wrong I was,
but to remember
is only to open up a deep wound
that threatens never to heal -
and an anger that constantly simmers.
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