Identity

"I licked my wounds long enough like a cat
...in the hopes of finding
ourselves one day -- here --
when childhood is no longer
but children no less.
Where healing is our playground
And you my playmate -- discovering
profoundly --
I was not alone."
-- c. del valle
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Some long to return
 to their childhood to escape;
 and some can't escape
  their childhood
  no matter their age.

multiplicand 9 multiplied
by verses&lines
gives me the same 9
            the same 9
                the cat may have
                as many lives
                as it'd lick
                its wounds 9 times
        ninety
        9
times mine.
corollary,
        9 times ninety 9
                we slip back to
                when 9 passed nine
                or nine before
        9 of yours
or mine 9

times of reminiscings
or rememberings as
                sufferings.

multiplicand 9 multiplied
by verses&lines
gives us the old
                equation:

1:1=identity.