That’s what people don’t know about cartographers and road finders
That if you fight the cave
and win
You are granted another breath and not more
you must excavate the next with your bare hands
Gather every tattered bloody remnant of your skin and lunge
Toward first light
You are Simba
And Rafiki
This process begins
Clawing your way through earth to sky without severing ties
Remembering what he said
Fire in hand, screaming
I will go
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