Seams

On this day ten years ago

I came undone at my seams

Torn apart by you

And the leaving that you did

It shredded me to pieces

To watch you walk away

Not knowing all the reasons

Behind the choice you made

In the ribbons of my body

Sat the unanswered questions

Intact somehow

Through all of it

I replaced them in my chest

As I slowly stitched myself

Back together around them

For a decade now they’ve sat

Here on my aorta

Flavoring my very blood

With the memory of you

The pain never faded

Along my many scars

I simply became used to feeling it

Buried in the sutures

Sometimes one will burst

A single thread undone

And I will slowly mend it

Preparing for the next one

So I will always be

A worn and weary thing

Assembled from the scraps of us

Like a quilt of broken love