Parts

I have been deveined

Like a shrimp for cooking

Stripped of all the life force

That lived and died with you

My body feels so hollow

My heart broken into dust

My stomach lies somewhere

In the dust where it dropped

When I heard the news

Liver pickled from the coping

I did in the days after

Bowels dis-emed

By my own dry heaving sobs

Lungs I suffocated

Because they brought the breath

That reminded me I could still

Take what you cannot

Mind I tried to squash

To throw to the wolves of life

But it stuck firm

Cemented by the memories

Seared into my skull

By the final pain of you

So I’m slowly stripping

The rest of me for parts

Parts that I no longer need

Bones and veins and arteries

Soon all that I will be

Is my brain inside the skull

That I will have set

By the stone that bears your name