handfuls of air

new skin - i feel it burning

inside - to boil up now -

splitting open the future -

the acid of change - the agony

of transformation - dissolving

what once was - i put myself here -

i built this place out of me -

i feel the bones

soggy like rotten logs -

i feel them sinking -

but still i am here - in the breath -

all this once dormant -

years ago - i caught only hints -

flares in the chest - now too obvious -

i was producing my tomb -

what will remain when the rest dissolves -

fading after-images - what of them -

i emerge from the past pale and shaking -

fragile wings unfurling -

this beauty was built on pain -

memory is dead - only i remain