i am a hyphen

a bridge. a stile. 

the in-between of things.

i am connect & born to twain.

i am unspoken "and" & of ampersand.

w/o time's devoid of space,

& phrase-as-concept's hard on eyes.

i am nothing but a dash,

a line,

i am the broken word rejoined.

i prelude to the suffix-which-stands-alone.

i am the gift of undecided nomenclature.

i am an awkward sign of equal stance-

of father and of mother both,

or mother and of father.

the primacy of sequence rests on all of you who use me.