Don't Read Into It #3: Release me

Do me this one thing

Take my bones

and

Grind me to dust

and

Let not the darkness

Consume me wholly

Don’t leave me by your bedside

To comfort you

In my unbeing

Do this for me

Me

Who has never asked

Me

Who has never wanted aloud

Take me — dust

To release me, finally

A little here

and

A little there

and

Wherever else I have known joy

Think of me

This time

Only me

This once

A favor, one last

For the unfavored

Surrender me to eternity

And let my darkness

Remain nevermore