angel,
take this saw
and split my hands
from prayer
and
from my body
so that you can wrap
them around you
like a necklace
where you are cradled by me
and when I rot
in glimmer and sun and warmth
you can have other smaller friends,
who fed off me
lived off me
died off me too,
wing their way
through
*
don’t hold me against you
she said
i was just trying to be my one best self
and i realized then
while we were apart and abandoned
by time and each other
that good is good
for only a few
and for the rest
it verges on bad
because look at how she
holds another person
in her self
as though they were one
and know that
because you can look
you have no one
blocking your view
with their hold
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