Biscuit Dog-o-Rama

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me, trying to understand myself and my feelings:

DONE WONDERING

Beyond wrecked afflictions

within mirror reflection

decrypting gift subscriptions

and lunar eclipses

keeps me a nervous wreck

wasn’t even a speckle of fun

I’m done wondering

no need to ponder

any worse direction

since the dawn of ponderings

very first were drawn

it isn’t to anyone’s wonder

I want all of this done

I’m done wondering

If I AM HERE

For if I were not

could I be looking at me in this mirror

AND would I be caught

questioning what keeps me moving

a little closer to nearer

proving if I once

was someone

and if so that someone

was done wondering

done wondering

if within these ribbons

of hundreds of years

have I ever been livin’

or treading water

always been GIVING

less than received

sorry for breathing

achieving going under

sooner or later leaving

done going asunder

almost a relief

berated for breathing

to the wonder of no one’s

bygone beliefs

fond of these answers

almost a relief

even the question

like my poem

is over and done

I’m SO Done

Done wondering