I am afraid to own a Body Poem by Emily Dickinson

I am afraid to own a Body

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I am afraid to own a Body -
I am afraid to own a Soul -
Profound - precarious Property -
Possession, not optional -

Double Estate - entailed at pleasure
Upon an unsuspecting Heir -
Duke in a moment of Deathlessness
And God, for a Frontier.

Emily Dickinson
Thursday, November 26, 2015
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* Sunprincess * 11 April 2016

............beautifully said and so true....possession, not optional...I've often thought the same thing ★

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