The Hand Over

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My weary heart of flaws I give to you

It's yours to have, to hold or throw away

I'm through being me, and mes I have been through

Are num'rous: tim'rous, chivalrous and fay

Those ventures with inventions; their invented vows

Are cast aside now like the apple core

When Adam tossed away and wiped his mouth

And Eve, wronged, blushed at blame on her for evermore:

You see now I'm the naked human being

I stand before you, pimpling in the wind

For you to clothe; impress me to your feeling

Or watch in weathers wintry while I'm skinned

In this or that my eyes will ever see

The you or us in which your pleasures be.

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