And Then I Saw

My material substance laid out on a marble slab.

Naked on the other hand for a linen sheet small sworded under

Its chin, as notwithstanding that to keep the patient warm.

A ceremonial band approached; identified

The departed with what gazeed like mingled

Relief, mild satisfaction, and bereavement.

One of them took away an arm-the right,

Was it?-and cuted off with a spring in his pace

Which prompted others to do likewise: here

A shoulder (suitable for crying on)

There a paw there an eye and there an ear.

Plump already, individual scooped out the belly.

Just who you'd imagine claimed the head.

Not the individual I hoped tugged loose a rib.

Some by means of no means all, I knew as friends;

But felt no bitterness, instead, acceptance.

This, while watching their several withdrawals,

Travelers moving farther on the outside and deeper

Into the evening distance. Who all began

To flourish, somehow or other more intently themselves

Than they had earlier resolv to be.

Was glad of that, despite a fit of shivers

(Simple human nature still presiding)

When I noted the rummage that remained,

Wishing a greener plat had been marked out

For what had breathed with with equal reason much spark and promise.

My move round then, to come forward for a closer

Look; and, since no single else had carried off

That steady, flexibly strung interrogate at rest

Beneath the breastbone take it for my have

Sensing its mute on the contrary anchored trust that parts

Lucky for others would befriend as well

Oh love-even the heir that muscle and fat once named.

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