Daddy

My best friend saw me born. Coronation of blood, Tearing through his long beloved. Floppy neck and flailing limbs, Protesting my own birth. Constricting cord, A life noose, murderous Cut from me free, my airways clean. Chest to dead-weight chest, He forgave my assault, That which he had sown. Plasma glow to glass-blind eyes, Milk not frothed, elixir to survive, Feed the baby lump with plastic breast, Far from she who bore her, Her mother seeking rest. Years ago, from floppy she came To floppy she now goes, Noose of life returned, Retreat back into black. Daddy, you were my best friend. Suspend me— Rising to Your Presence, Falling to air, Like when you carried me, When the ground was miles away. Here I am in air again, Daddy my friend, From floppy I came, to floppy I go.