And now after
all of this
what I want
more than anything
is to awaken
just that awaken
to this life
this life that’s
mine mine only
having shed others
who have before
I had worn
thinking they’d protected
me from life
but rather than
protect they kept
me from it
now I sleep
naked as I
did before all
of this started
awakening every single
day just like
I did that
very first time