I can remember it feeling abject disgust

for myself

I was never of a way that called for such disgust yet there it was sure I made mistakes I

did things that left me regret remorse

not so much to hate

the very self I am there is never enough mis

take to go so deeply against thy

self

yet I can see her still the body I was shrinking from

the things around her as the insides said this was the truth

all the while reaching out with her soul to settle into the place that filled in

the true truth that’d been washed under all this muck

she returns sometimes to thank

and to remind and feel and submerse in sensory recalls again it’s

in the form of fear now and

distrust that all that has proven true

isn’t

I crawl away from it these days the visceral sense of having missed something and therefore no longer

I crawl away