That crazy envy

 

Oh my

how it hit me

 

Actually,

how it didn’t!

 

It just stealthily arrived

(I barely noticed)

 

And made itself quite at home

right there, under my rib cage

 

Slowly burning into my chest

tightening the muscles around my mouth

so that I was not smiling any more

but looking glum and superior

my companion no longer with me

but pushed away by that

crazy, sickening envy!

 

And then,

I remembered

to notice in my breath

and hers

the Oneness

that we are

 

Not she and me

but We

Envy fractured by

Unity