We persist a long time
not so much day to day flippy floppy
yin yang but afterthought –
hereafter romanticized
Not dancing life versus death
rather breath for bone,
Beloved.
It lets me be, my skeleton
and when I’ll see my soul my death
will look down and cry, sad grappler at
sad grappler until my breath realizes
autonomous persistence and
after’s whatever
~ Elle