This was a very helpful note to decode your poem. The clothing metaphor and reaching past flesh and bone. Excellent.

I view ego more positively than most. My post https://medium.com/write-under-the-moon/symbiosis-f28878c9f7b6 starts with this tanka:

my soul spoke to me
we are ego we are one
divine creation
embrace our duality
separate we are no one


And thank you so much for including my poem of tanka and prose that delves deeply into what Lindsey's soul experienced from the moment she died from an accidental OD and what the next four weeks were like for both of us until her soul let go, and I let go, and she finally crossed over, which act of letting go launched us into the 24/7/365 relationship we've been engaged in for the past few years now.