‘Please…’
I was so eager,
I did not even know
what to ask her.
And then the crone spoke,
her smile never wavering.
‘The answer you seek is not here.’
At first I thought
I had misheard her.
‘But you must know my purpose!
And I found something
along the journey,’
I was speaking quickly now.
‘I became three!
Three versions of myself.
Like you!’
I gestured towards the mother
and maiden who were looking
closely at me now.
I turned back to the crone,
‘How did I become three?
You must know something,
you know the fates
of everyone,
mortal or God!’
‘The Answer You Seek Is Not Here’
It was like every wound
I ever had opened up
inside my chest and I wanted to weep.
It was like seeing my home crumble