Alone, for my Own Good

Drain me
of all that is not alive,
like a corpse
left with
arteries open,

the trapdoor
to the soul

empty.

Anesthetize my heart
and leave me alone,
solitary and abandoned
for my own good
in the impoverished body
where light excavates love
from bones

sun bleached
and forgiven.


Teach me
to swim in heaven
with my lungs breaking free
of this horizontal plane

taking easy breaths
from the smooth surface
of God's sweet ocean
and awake in the waters
of that much divinity.