Final Chapters - Jan. 6, 2023

shuffling or rolling along

carpeted hallways

and flowered walls

they go by with cracked smiles

some with lips pressed

in a grim parallel

others turned down

frowning with bitterness

an array of final chapters

spreads before me

and the one

still being scripted

in the mirror

practicing with my mouth

all the different possibilities

and the one way

I hope it will bend

in the end