Grief

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"Quit living in the past!"
"You know what happened to Lot's wife!"
My friends whispers are sharp and unknowing.
I am quite calm when I reply,
I know what happened to Lot's wife,
and I am quite pointed
(like a pillar)
when I pose this question back:
Is it BECAUSE
she looked back that she turned into a crystal column or...
was it BECAUSE she stopped moving...
(in order to get a better look at the life she left behind?)
It seems a bit unfair that just the looking back
would
turn
her into a dried out hardened old pickle.
I really don't know.
I know I am moving forward,
but I am still looking back and...
I am not iodized
or
crystallized.
So my final answer is -
I think it is the looking back
and the moving forward
that makes me the salty sister I am.
And that is why I have preserved so well.

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