This is the first installment in a series for the poem “Torn.”
From the moment we are conceived,
We are torn.
The very act of meiosis
Is divisive-
Splitting
Even as it builds
Differentiating
In an exhaustive effort to
Make us whole,
Coherent
As a child, the tearing continues:
We are torn from bottle or breast
From diapers and dreams
To deliberations and decisions
From rocking in arms
To rolling in angst
As we separate
Angels from devils
Friends from betrayers
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