WIPE

Your muscles have much to unlearn
paths must be forgotten
codewords erased.
You need to no longer touch me there
or there – these are No Fly Zones
and what you do
doesn’t fly anymore.

The training started last week
when you opted out
of my happiness
and my day-to-day.
You have selected a new way,
have found improved gods to worship
and better chants of praise.

But you can’t keep it all.
If you are to know so much more
than you ever wanted with me
it is time for forgetting.
Unmemorize my birthday
and my mothers’ maiden name
– while I attempt to erase us.

We both have so much to unlearn.