Anatomy of Us

I’ll write the bones

You draw the soul

As I describe the heartache

You can paint its toll

I’ll make note of all we are

If you’ll sculpt it out of clay

Reach for me with paints and oils

I'll stretch with words and prose

Through all of this

Together

We will make a study

Of the body we create

When the two of us combine

The life molded out of a sum

Of the best

And worst of us

The complements and contradictions

The ebbs and flows of love

The two hearts beating slowly

As we craft an us

From the me

And you

That came before