Chains of paper, chains of flesh.
Liars all.

Fingers in my mouth
Down my throat
To my toes
To the earth.

Anchors
Stitches
Fists
and
Glue.

Quiet, they say,
And hide.

Where is your worth?
They ask.
Has it
faded
to nothing?

Chains of paper, chains of flesh.
Liars all.

I devour you
And swallow.

You dissolve,
Paper prison,
Fleshly walls.
Until
You never were.

I am
What I always have been.
Eternal, blessed, clean.

You cannot hold me
and
You cannot keep me.
because
You never were.