Effigy

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An effigy

What’s left of me

Stones

Bones

Can you see

What can’t be free?

What used to be?

Intensity

Integrity

Vitality

How can it be —

This fallacy?

My weaponry —

Desensitize

Use a disguise.

Will weakness be

my legacy?

Or is there still

A chance for me?

But

Risk-restricted

Self-convicted

Hope, evicted

Loss, predicted

I fear to see

And fail to be.

Evoke in me

Integrity

Resiliency

Don’t bury me

Save effigies

This

will

not

be

My eulogy.