Is it a changed world Or am I a new man? Finding her at the bedside- What'd have been only a dream before- I was elated and made for her cheeks. The glossy warmth of her flushed skin Radiated in the yellow afternoon, Which I reckoned was the kind of my Childhood naps: Resurrection is not the erasure- But the totality of memory In this new world, reconfigured around My figure, the Chosen One, (The choosing by myself through self-destruction) She'd left all her men to lead and follow me With the maturity that comes with sainthood The bustle of bodies was heard outside, Waiting to worship the one they'd failed Let them wait, I thought, her beatifically beating body in my arms