Zywa
New Year's Eve 2021
What is a new year worth
if there is nothing new about it
and also nothing old?
If I no longer know myself
no longer am my old self
and have to learn
to love the other person
with my name and my body
whom I'd rather not be
Who misses my capacities
who needs to think far too long
before she says something back
who is not as funny and quick-witted
as me, as I remember
that I was, as I am
But it doesn't come out
it is hidden somewhere
so that I want to crawl away
and see nobody, nobody
until it appears and
I can jump and talk again
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