a l m o s t / w h o l e

you came back

just as my finger

was finishing the last stitch

of my heart

to make it whole

again

you crashed into

my life

and all at once,

the impact of you

unraveled all

the threads that i had been

carefully pulling

over & under

my fragile heart

that now lies

broken

my fingers grasp at the threads

and

start

threading