Scott Simpson · Poetry

Your Own Shape

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Your Own Shape

You don’t look like that photo

from ten years ago.

Your smile is shaped by

stories now. Your hands

remember warmth and work.

The world will offer

a thousand molds to pour

yourself into.

Say no.

You are already a sculpture

formed by time, weathered,

beautiful, unrepeatable.