What Holds Me Back When I Might Choke?

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Who needs to disappear for a while?


Who sings my name beyond the veil?


Who has my memories, my tales?


Who knows the secrets in my gaze?


What holds me back when I might choke?

— Allison Joseph from poem Incognito Grief: A Blues