u2x

there have been two u's in my life.
possibly more.
and the deepest of them are not bound by a ribbon of time
as u may suspect.

our initial contact sketched an essential u a
clothed but skeletal u,
worn in layers but a seeing through to u.

later pressed into service a double u
and just that
a dopple-ganging up on me, made of my insistence, my ingredients; artificial u.
the likes id never seen.

so understand to be through with u is not rejection,
just remembrance that u were never there

and i was so alone.