Life is a rehearsal

Life is a rehearsal. 
The future is a puzzle. 
The present is a maze.
Once the world was simple, 
Now it is upside down. 
Nothing like it was before. 
Truly, I don't understand it anymore. 
I am written history. 
Stripped of all hiding behind. 
Back and forth my pen is weaving, 
Erasing the past, rewriting the present.
I am planning to drape the world in newly- minted shreds. 
It is all a stricken landscape. 
The world cannot be rebuilt. So we create a replica. 
With our bloody hands we create an inauthentic world 
Pieced together from the shards of a vanished, 
Once human civilization. 
We glue it together and standing back by the flickering fire, 
We embrace. 
Remember history as if you lived it yourself.
I am rewriting the past. 
With bloody hands I paint a line, a border. 
I am choosing my own colors, creating a rainbow. 
I am split, I cradle one culture, I am sandwiched between two. 
No trail, no footprint, no map, no way home, 
No place to set my feet. 
Where do I go? History. 
I am lost. No excuse, no comfort in the present
If I don't recognize the shards of a broken world, 
The humanity.
I do have bloody hands. They don't wash off. 
They are stained from the red paint 
I drew a border across my identity. 
Tolerance, tell me about it. 
I am rewriting history right now. 
I am rehearsing. The future is a crazy place. 
See you all there!

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