CHLOÉ WRIGHT

Change of Command

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I am neither here nor there

and yet,

you follow me with each moment

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something, which moved me 

when I was so little

makes its way into now

causing something so big

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something you said to me

in the convenient store aisle 

when I was young enough to be held

and you were loud enough to be heard

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something I felt once

that morphs into something 

I am feeling now

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into a moment 

I cannot remember,

cannot place

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because my mind has only one job

since you died

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this job

once held by you

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my protection

taken over by something

dark and unpredictable 

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a change of command

that keeps on changing

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most days

I don't know if it is I

or the trauma who is speaking 

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2021