What the Desert Keeps
On identity after everything unnecessary has been removed.
The wind
took everything
it could carry.
The name others gave her.
The version built for their comfort.
The softness performed
in rooms that required it.
The wind is thorough.
It has been doing this
for longer than memory.
What remained
was not what she expected.
Not emptiness.
Not the hollow place
where the other things had been.
Something older.
Something the wind
had been trying to find
beneath everything it removed.
She had been here
before the name.
Before the version.
Before the room.
The desert
does not create identity.
It just removes
everything that was never
truly part of it.
What is left
was always
the original.
— AËLA
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Sometimes what remains is not what we found, but what never stopped being there.
This is probably why Bob Dylan says “the answer is blowing in the wind”!