Betray Me

Betray me mind
With snippets
From old
Papers

With visions
Of appendages
Dangling - veins
And parchment
Skin.

Call to me
At night in
Pictures
I refuse to
Purge.

Cancer me
With scents
With the feel
Of the edges
Of body;
Mine once,

That cries
On the other
End.

I failed you,
Not a man,
To hold you.