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Light

  

I don’t lose weight without my consent.

Diabetes is greediest, famished. Regret 

doesn’t burden me. I’m not answerable

to gravity. No heavy responsibility, 

no prescription for change. For decades 

I’ve been feeding my blood disorder

like a monster. I have choice but I desire 

to know more of pleasure’s names. 

I wouldn’t find the pen, paper sty 

that would keep me in. I refuse 

to rewrite the years, I refuse to put 

signature to remorse. I don’t have to face 

the mirror. I feel the lift that will soon 

make me leave this body a traveler 

with no places to remember.


 

Jonel Abellanosa - Cebu City, The Philippines

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