thank your assailant

grateful for the cell, stretcher and catheter
i’ll aim now to wear my body
as the blanket perfectly wrapped
in first blessed moments of bed, after the cold 
when bliss and innocence exist
when demons and assailants
are held fast at the threshold 

and on the other side of my head
i’ll know they come and go freely
while i’m gone away beneath in sleep 
they do what they will

i’ll wake dazed, the sun will loaf 
again remembering the lowest
i’ll say thanks for the chance to allow