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Doors and lips shut
and we become strangers
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a code I knew but can’t remember
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I see faces I once held,
open as sunflowers in my hands.
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familiar skin now stretched on long bodies
that move past me
glowing almost like pearls.One day they disappear into their rooms. Doors and lips shut and we become strangers in our own home. I pace the hall, hear whispers, a code I knew but can't remember, mouthed by mouths I taught to speak. Years later the door opens. I see faces I once held, open as sunflowers in my hands. I see familiar skin now stretched on long bodies that move past me glowing almost like pearls. Write two or three sentences that explain what happens to the “strangers” when “years later, the door opens”? as a 6 grader

Answer 1

When the door opens years later, the "strangers" are actually the speaker's children, all grown up. Their faces are bright and open like sunflowers, and even though their bodies are taller and changed, the speaker recognizes them and they are no longer strangers.