NPM 2 -Yeah okay so did I forget to post more NPM things? yup.

Hey y'all turns out I'm god awful at posting everyday, so I've decided this thirty days will be as spread out as I feel like it because time is an illusion anyway and honestly who really cares? Nobody is reading this and I live by no rules!

I've actually got an interesting poem today! Not to belittle my other works, of course, but I'm just really excited about this one. I enrolled recently in a poetry class at Gemini Ink on revising poetry, but the first day we did a little bit of generating new poems, and I figured I'd share that poem with you, and then (if I end up editing it) I can post the edited version later and we can see how it's changed! Fun, huh?

This piece has no title because I hate titles and they are very difficult to come up with, but if it had one it would probably be Homecoming.

Homecoming
Andja Bjeletich

How many times 

Have I seen this stone

Jutting through the river’s surface?

Is it smaller now?
Smoother,

After all these years 

Braving the current?

If only I had noticed it before,

It’s topography and algae,

That I might mark it’s changes

In an unending passage of time

How long does it take

For an unrelenting river

To whittle this rocky away 

To nothing but a thousand scattered grains

Like ash?

And how long must I stand here 

Before I, too, am whittled to nothing

But dust and ash?

Will I recognize this river?

When the rock has gone?

When it is no longer filled with 

Children splashing, terrorizing the innocent tadpoles?

Is it even the same river

Without my beautiful stone

That cleaves it in two?

And will it know me

When I am whittled by the 

Relentless tide of time 

Into nothing but dust 

And ash?

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Let me know what you think! I'll show you the other one I'm working with tomorrow if I can remember, okay?