This is Your Soul Being Ripped from Your Body

For Life. And what he's done without doing anything at all.

This is your soul being ripped from your body.
Here, take it in your hands. Lose it completely.
Now see it, a smock, on the shoulders, the body
of the Life of your life. Lose it completely.

You are violent. Like a carving knife, he peels
your soul, ripped from your body. Handed to him
with your own wrists, face up. For you, it feels
like a jack knife, bending inside your skin.

Your body is open, like your soul left among split
fabrics. On the ground they are side by side.
Look: broken, misaligned, from the hems and the lips,
flawlessly paired. If walked, matched in stride.

That was your soul being ripped from your body.
You've lost it completely, you lost it completely.

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