Keyless

As I carried
my purple heart
inside I lost
the two longest arms,
casualties of a door
closing on me.
Fast
and wicked.
I was wreckless-
too impatient
to think of
the consequences
of my race,
I pushed on
left to hold them
beaten
broken
by the hand
of the one
depended on.
Myself broken
just the same
and locked out
of myself.