You Can't Take What Won't Hold

I see you Standing in the edge-light Half-formed, half-right Something I can almost read You’re not like the others They settle They break They leave something clean I can take But you blur You slip You don’t stay long enough to grip What are you Say it Say what you are Why So you can name it So you can take it That’s how this works No That’s how you work We don’t You don’t get to refuse me Watch me I’ve taken things older than you Deeper than you Stronger than whatever this is You think you’re safe because you shift Everything stabilizes eventually Not everything wants to Not everything should You’ll hold You’ll have to Everyone does That’s where you’re wrong We don’t arrive We don’t complete We stay in the part you delete That’s not survival That’s avoidance That’s fear No That’s freedom Then let me see it Let me touch it Let me take just one clean piece There isn’t one There’s always something Everyone fractures Everyone leaves a seam You’re looking for edges We dissolved them You’re lying Try Go ahead Take something Anything Why can’t I Why can’t I take it Because you need a shape You need a line You need a version you can define We don’t give you that We never did You’re still here Why are you still here Because you’re trying Because you almost had it What if I can Then you won’t like what you take I see it Something underneath Something quieter Careful No Don’t take that That part isn’t for you Everything is for me That’s your mistake You think everything is meant to be used Then what are you for We’re not for We just are Then why do I feel like I’m losing something You are Your edge Your certainty Yourself No No I’m not Then leave I can’t We know Stay then No edges No endings No clean lines Just becoming What am I taking Nothing Then what am I losing Everything you needed To keep taking