the first step is watching the foot, root
down, immersed in skin pressed/concealed:
growing ever inwards, a cancer of contempt,
eating and burrowing worm holes deep, leaving
a conduit of power.  denial.  i am awake.

lying amng rushes: reeds of insolence sticking
up through coarse thought, gravel, along the banks
of a blue and once beautiful, but truly lost lake
vocalizing songs of strong remorse, laments
that come in waves of wails, tears that burn
like shame down cheeks turned cold.  turning colder,

as what little left remaining leaves forever
never to recosider, the choices that made me
into a stone.  that make me into the embodiment of
embarassment, manifestation of culminating disaster...

plans laid like a plot...brewed up like a noxious drug
taken in and welcomed by an encompassing need
no one ever needs to know...no one ever needs to find me

i'll be really small and quite i promise
i'll shrink away and eat the proof

just let me slip from recognition
no identity. no pretty blue reflection

just words willing to be more

just the....

i am not here i am not here i am not here
I AM GONE