I thought that if you pretended not to care
that eventually you'd genuinely stop caring
but the weight of you
inside me
wound around me
it is all too much to bear

it was all or nothing, strings or no
nothing is not obtainable, listen!
1 at a time. snip snip snip.
cut the threads that held us together for so long
but there are some too small to see
maybe, but not too small to feel
they will be there forever
they will embed into our skins
they will become part of us
and cut us open

bear them for all the world to see
for our wounds will never heal
if they've never been open or
if they don't get air.

suffocate.
rejuvenate.
listen, kate.