no because what wouldn’t you do to have five more minutes, five more seconds with the love of your life? what wouldn’t you do to assert your own humanity, and that of your loved ones? what wouldn’t you do if your life was seen as lesser than, insignificant after you’ve clocked out, after your emotional and physical labor in no longer needed? when everything you do is at the behest of your oppressor, even though that oppressor is YOU. what would you do to prove that you love, that you hurt, that you remember, that you are a PERSON, and that the woman holding your hand is too. who wouldn’t you damn? except they didn’t damn anyone, they saved her, even though they knew it could mean their end. innie mark was created for emotional convenience and was going to be killed for it too. what wouldn’t you give? what wouldn’t you take? and the past is yours but it isn’t yours, but the future and the present you have to share with YOURSELF, a self defined by the past unwilling to grow as a person. and you’ve only seen the sky once, felt the wind on your skin once, but it didn’t matter. because you were too busy looking at the love of your life because she is your entire life. and that you, wants you to go through the same pain he went through without the hope of reprieve. but he doesn’t know, he would be trading one ghost for another. love transcends severance, i thrash and scream, as the nurses struggle to hold me down to inject me with a sedative,