The Dejá Vù of Incoming Rounds of Hurtling Thought

Do save me from "ReLaTiOnShIp!!"

It is a word so easily made grotesque by those

coasting on the constructs of old stories and

apertures of mosaics built of their sweet strictures.

Do save me from "ReLaTiOnShIp!!"

When it is a word become hollow

with the happy prisons of others' imaginings

and their worlds made whole of fragmented pieces of me.