Bone Side Out

I am past gut full,

the kind of tired that settles into bone and stays,

Do not mistake me for spineless,

I am spine full,

ever fused, segments carrying

what I can no longer swallow,

a body shaped by pain,

by the constant weight of a world that asks too much,

I do not bend,

ever steadfast, for a system never built for me.

Self-Portrait, Bone Side Out by Rae Sabine

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