What Do You Have to Lose?

You. Your sense you are you.
Oh, fine, there’s other stuff,
Stuff you’re afraid to lose,

People you care about,
A few that would haunt you
With a terrible grief

To lose, until you’d lose
You. Status, dignity,
Security, your health,

A safe, dry place to sleep.
All of those you could lose,
But you could still keep you.

Come to think of it, no.
You are the one thing you
Yourself can never lose.

Once you go you aren’t you,
Nothing ventured, nothing
You. It’s only so long

As you keep you that you
Must still have things you’ll lose.
You lose through keeping you.