Imprimis

Does anyone know

who they were before

experience changed

them into the next

person they became

or when experience

changed that person

can they see who

that interim person

might have been

can anyone then

be anyone then

or now

forever

after

such thoughts fall

away and never

enter in again

unless the sinner

sin again the sin

that became the in

before and left

an open door

stepped through into

a room so much tighter

or looser than before

for me

I cannot see

a forest

without a tree