Untitled, Kayry Gonzalez

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Needle and thread, flesh and bone

Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home Your suture lines sparkle like diamonds

Bright stars to light my confinement

I’ll be your mess, you be mine

That’s the deal we had signed

I brought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste Gas masks, gloves to keep us safe But now I’m alone in an empty room Staring down immaculate doom There’s a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out You’d better just leave it be

Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be

Now, if I could get through airport security You crossed the water, left me ashore

It killed me enough, but you wanted more You blew up the bridge, a mad terrorist Waved from your side, blew me a kiss I started to follow but realized too late First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me

I wait for the day

That you’ll resurrect me Under my Sole, a Soul there is

The wind billows past my cheeks, Making my eyelashes turn up. It's winter, frozen are the creeks And in the distance I hear a pup

I walk forward and hear a branch snap The leaves also crunch beneath my feet I find a bug and in my hand I entrap The little thing, and give it leaves to eat

Kayry Gonzalez

I put the bug down, and walk away to find another, But then I look back with a frown And think like that, there won't be any other.

He was so special and yet so small. Perhaps to my home, I should take them all.