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the door opens

& I’m met with a brisk

as abrupt as my reality.

my new life

I’ve been trying to write

this out but the heart knows

no words

when the man I love

is to wed another.

Oh

the resources will

come for me. meantime

sharpen the body

tighten the skin, cut

the thews. wet the skin

I am to fulfill a dream.

leaving him in agony of my shadow

my light, that once loved him like shards

of glass making a man of mirrors. Gently