my water in your veins

Here are the first and last stanzas of “my water in your veins”:

will it take a sip of courage, tawny liquid gliding down my throat

to stand in front of you

bare my obstinate bones

confess myself

ask you to forgive?

wrap my carcass in your arms

breathe my water through your veins

return it to me with a whisper

me

dead

I flicker

I flame

© 5 April 2019

Cindy B. Stevens

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