The Replacement
The Stand-in mask slips and pinches
Unable to stifle tears or pain
Filtration layer at fault?
Was contamination inevitable
From the moment the Original slipped
To breathe freely to taste the world?
Are tears the price of admission
To the land of the living
Or the dying?
Published via LexPoMo 2020. Image by Łukasz Dyłka from Pixabay
