ASIF per happen stance

 aftermath.

a question i was never allowed to answer.

                  something to do with the word

pain. no man's land nomenclature.

something like this:

           ?

as if.

perhaps with eyes closed and palm raw, stripped,

 perhaps, 

to one

 thin skin 

layer  and so to feel with care;

to hold dear, or just,  in some way, 

better,

 the subtle particular shape of a singular anguish.

perhaps.

as if it were

 ...

it were very important. and not fearsome, 

but a thing  obliged to ,

as if,

 actually 

it were NOT a thing 

but a being interdigitated with your own; 

a pock marked meeting in one 

stringent moment where something fallen from way too high,

 to way too low, and hard, and jagged,

SLAM -

is before you now, wrecked and restless anguish anxious-struck awe in the thousand-ed un-ending, weeping angels at that pin head, right there.

  and asking for nothing, except

witness. 

so

you bend and lay beside it,  take it into your ALL that so aches already,

 pull it close into your heart

  

and wait

for what comes next  

"Life expands or constricts in direct proportion to one's courage."  Quote - Author Unknown