Half-Lives

"...half seems so inadequate."

Half-Lives

I feel like I’ve wasted
Half of my life;
I have half left
To give you, half
Seems so inadequate.

Is it even half?
Or have I lived
Radiating all of
My energy
On the wrong half?

Like uranium
Have my half-lives
Cut me down,
Half upon half,
Until nothing’s left?

Take this half,
Even if it’s a quarter
Or less;
Tell me you still 
Have a quarter left -

To be my other half?

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