[sub]Across

Let me propose a deal across the veil.
I can’t say that I wish to call you back,
my stomach wracked with knots,
your stomach wracked with pain,
but there’s something left to be gained,
generation-proofed, cardboard-sealed
so I can see the years beyond memory
and the puncture of a compass.

Let’s trade. Time can be undone,
rent asunder like the circles I
once knew. In lieu of words, there is
blood, and we would sign a contract
in duplicate, your time for mine,
neither being on the other’s side but
circumstance protects that which it has
claimed. 

Words that you disowned:
Could.
Would.
Should.
We have signed together in our blood,
and those words need not apply.[/sub]

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