My negative, Exposed

Uncover me

Shed my skin of vulnerability

simply because you can

For no other reason

sufficiently describes

simply because it is

you who can

Unfold arms embracing

what the it is

they hold so gently

Impressed upon

the familiar image of yourself

staring back

Using your skeleton key

to which you unlock every door

behind the I in everything

naked standing

unfolded

exposed

me

Understand the whom

to who you seek

Measure

What is the weight of desire in gold?

Sentiment in silver?

The worth of a life traded

for a past mulled over?

Or two lives, or three, or five?

The whom to who you seek

choices measured not in pennies

but penance paid

to your personal history

(Come) Undone

Come exposed

Come seen

Come under the weight of necessity

or ascribe to the permanence of possibility

But, come

Undone

Come exposed

Come seen

Let the rarity of negative exposure

from the dark rooms of dark halls in dark living

Develop.

See yourself

As you are seen

By me.