the more of my old clothes I stuff
into bags to be donated
to those who can use them 

the more some will demand
that I wear those better clothes
I will no longer wear

they do not understand
or refuse to understand
or simply fear the truth

that sometimes abandonment
is the best choice of career
sometimes rejection

is the greatest —
indeed the only embrace —
I can offer my future

whether I end up naked
exposed and bitten
however I end in that future

I will be arrayed and adorned
locked in its loving arms
as I and only I wish