gone there

i did not come here to exist

on the fringes of my life

to beg for partial seconds

to exist amidst some strife

i did not come here to borrow

what’s left

to scrap

to beg

to be comforted by

what’s less

i do not subsist by the mere

nor live in resistance and fear

i will not settle for settling

to scrap

to beg

i came here to be full

not swollen with gout

yet bursting in wholeness

never living in doubt