GREAT EXPECTATIONS

All the promise I once had

I still hold, but buried

under a cairn of mistakes,

built with my own hands.

Each day I say to myself,

"Today I will start the great work

to dig up what I still hold,

and make the best of it."

Yet each day I add a new

stone, cut and roughly hewn,

atop the cairn with my

own calloused hands.

28.12.2022

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