“Are gargoyles always grotesque” I google.
And that’s when I learn
that gargoyles are functional waterspouts
with a rep they did not earn.
The monsters and the tortured?
Grotesques is what they’re called.
Guardians of godliness,
Forever in His thrall.
I thought I had a metaphor:
that my past selves are gargoyles fixed in time.
But now I’m really not so sure:
Grotesque is hard to rhyme.
Perhaps the past is better drawn
as form and function too
Foundations of the future me,
A fitting cast and crew.

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