Boundary dispute

Get out the war canoes:
some part of me --
that fight or flight mechanism
we hear so much about, no doubt --
is ready to do battle,
lining up the troops,
prepping for some unknown skirmish,
hooked on the idea
that there's something I can do
to control this situation.
You'd think it was my border
that's being threatened;
my boundary that's in dispute.
I seem to keep forgetting
where I stop --
and You begin.


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