You
by Edith Spencer

If you let me go,
and I go into the light
You'll die, won't you?

Could you bear it?
I am you, all silver and gold
and feather tipped hand.
I would burn. Your heart would rot.

Can you see it
My triumph over you
Blood gone and bones dust
No more your fill of me;
No more.

September '98



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