OctPo Day 21: Fingerprints

I actually really love today's prompt about leaving our fingerprints, footprints or handprints behind! It instantly reminded me of all the places I've been and lived, and how some small part of me must still be there, whether as a speck of dust, a smear of DNA (hello, Gattaca!), or a lingering energetic signature. 


Linger

My fingerprints are
everywhere
lingering
like ghosts

In the houses
and classrooms
of my childhood,
on forgotten
floors and puzzles
and tables

On the
steering wheels
and dashboards
of cars
now driven
by someone else

On glasses in
restaurants, bars
and coffee houses
in San Francisco
and Paris

I leave myself
behind wherever
I go
as stray specks
and
particles and
atoms

To be woven
back into
the fabric of
the universe