between if and is

do we know the different is it invention is it practicality

she pretends time is not howling outside her window

staring as she does at this sliver of sky calling it daytime

she seems unable to reconcile between confusion and some obscure vision of truth

aren’t they the same

she has a memory of a bicycle and two friends

she spends the day with them preparing to go yet never leaving out

time stuck in the mind

all feelings turned into facts

she will walk by July

she lies deeper in the bed of her own making