To the One Who Wasn't

within, there

nesting in the 

shallot shaped 

bulb of beginning 

you joined me

created in 

violence, 

I denied you

 

your soul
had a better 

place to begin 

no safety, 

no way to be 

all that you should 

this lineage

of trauma 

mine to stop 

and what
I'd never 

give you