Unanchored, I was lost
In the cold waters
Of your massive stone walls.
You sheltered me
As you did the furniture,
My mother-in-law's china,
The first wife's silver,
But never did your arms
Embrace me. Fresh paint
Couldn't calm the dragons.
My notch-
_____faceless,
Destined to drown within
Your sea of otherness.
You swallowed me
But the seed inside grew
And on that warm April day
We brought him home.
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