Is this it?
--
A unexpected,
uninvited, unwelcome
tenant.
Its choice of decorum wears at my heart
and the further it furnishes,
the less I am able or willing to resist.
I would demand rent; but what contract is written for the nameless?
When can I expect its raucous songs to die in the night if it has no voice to tire
and the breath it expends is my own?
It ransacks, it sifts,
through all I am.
It rends my chest.
And what was mine is left to pool in its mouthless cheeks.
To whom do I plead? Where could I protest?
My-- Our door,
has only ever been shut fast.
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