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Once

http://childpsychiatryassociates.com/treatment-team/ronald-hilliard Once
You are neither question
nor answer here—
only breath,
only the ache
of having once been
smaller
than this.

As if sky
remembered you
before you arrived,
and stones
waited longer
than time
to speak your name.

You walked into the hush
without footsteps,
carried
by something older
than direction.

There is no arrival.
Only the opening—
again
and again—
like an eye
that does not close,
because it no longer needs to.

What Remains

What Remains

It is not about the feast,
but the hunger that teaches you shape—
how to bend without breaking,
how to reach with empty hands
and still return with something.

The world shrinks
until it is one task,
one drop,
one breath—
and still, you carry on.

No grand designs,
only the daily architecture
of survival:
a grip,
a balance,
a moment held longer than expected.

What remains
is not the size of the prize
but the stretch of your spine
toward it.