Kin

Bridging the space between

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You are my kin

You may not know it yet
And the differences between your eyes and mine
What you’ve seen and what I’ve seen
What we both see
May serve to widen the space between us
Deepen the gap where sorrow falls bottomless
Like a void between worlds
No end to the starlit darkness
Where grief swells in waves

But if you cl…