Undone

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Untie the tangled filaments of thought

floundering around in my gelatinous mind

Unleash me from the noose of my biggest fears

creeping up with the crescent moon

Unarm the troops I placed

around a flock of words almost spoken

Unbind me to the face I wear

to shield from the burn of a spotlight of stares

Untangle me, waters of Crystal Pond,

in this corner of the universe

between you and me —

wash away the grime gathering

in the crooks of my elbows,

parasites feeding off the loam off my skin,

and show me what’s left —

Undo everything I ever was

and everything I’m meant to become

and leave me strangling

just a stretch offshore

in the air I was born —

in the air I belong —

unpolluted by human complexity,

living, breathing,

undone.

Anna Y.