Missa X Use Me To Stay Faithful Better [top]

But the second part of the plea is what startles: “Use me.” In an age obsessed with autonomy, control, and self-optimization, asking to be used sounds like degradation. Yet in the spiritual lexicon of fidelity, it is the highest freedom. The musician does not lament being used by the violin; she becomes the music. The pen does not resist being used by the poet; it becomes the poem. To ask Missa to use me is to surrender the exhausting burden of self-managed faithfulness. It is to admit: I cannot be faithful on my own. My eyes wander. My heart divides. My promises fray at the edges. So take my hands, my mouth, my daily hours. Use them.

There is a dark intimacy in this. It suggests that "staying faithful" is a war, and the speaker is willing to be the shield, the distraction, or the battlefield itself. It mirrors the ascetic tradition of the "memento mori"—using a physical object to stay focused on a higher goal. Here, the object is a human being. The tragedy lies in the fact that to "stay faithful better," the person being used must be erased as an equal and redefined as a means to an end. Faithfulness as an External Construct

. By asking a partner to "use" them, the individual abdicates a certain level of agency. This submission serves a dual purpose: Satiation:

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But the second part of the plea is what startles: “Use me.” In an age obsessed with autonomy, control, and self-optimization, asking to be used sounds like degradation. Yet in the spiritual lexicon of fidelity, it is the highest freedom. The musician does not lament being used by the violin; she becomes the music. The pen does not resist being used by the poet; it becomes the poem. To ask Missa to use me is to surrender the exhausting burden of self-managed faithfulness. It is to admit: I cannot be faithful on my own. My eyes wander. My heart divides. My promises fray at the edges. So take my hands, my mouth, my daily hours. Use them.

There is a dark intimacy in this. It suggests that "staying faithful" is a war, and the speaker is willing to be the shield, the distraction, or the battlefield itself. It mirrors the ascetic tradition of the "memento mori"—using a physical object to stay focused on a higher goal. Here, the object is a human being. The tragedy lies in the fact that to "stay faithful better," the person being used must be erased as an equal and redefined as a means to an end. Faithfulness as an External Construct

. By asking a partner to "use" them, the individual abdicates a certain level of agency. This submission serves a dual purpose: Satiation:

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