they hurt the same as me
they are not my blood
or are they?
for i feel we are one and the same
creatures born of the same catastrophe
breathing in and out
feeling with every bone in our bodies
the somehow universal pain
feeling it hurt in places we did not used to hurt
feeling it heal in places we did not even know it hurt
inhaling the air of a shared place
bleeding into each other
as i realize that,
in some unique way,
we are blood
– Lexie Brooke
lexie brooke 
Thanks for putting things I also feel into words, Lexie.
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