“Tell me,” she says
Not wanting to know
What I do/ don’t
A first date since you…
…as
Inquisition
or
decision on hold
To be
dissected
inspected
or left
In checkmated dread
several moves ahead
And I’m willing to lose
If at the end, the gain
Tells me I’ve achieved
Something close
to feeling again
anything
since then. Since us
I mean to say when
I was less invisible
or whole
or of a piece
that could feel, when I bled
to keep you
and was nothing like this
a day walker among
the ambling dead.
