Ageless Companion

I’ve befriended sharpness

the way the wind befriends

a kite.

The piercing pain

keeping my breath

as my own.

Preventing it from

becoming the universe’s

rhythm.

It has saved me

since I was a child.

Alone within the four

walls of a dark room.

Tears unseen

but felt

as they cascaded

onto my skin.

The sharpness never

leaving me alone

in suffering again.