Whole Body Heartbreak

The human body is such a sympathetic thing.
First your heart breaks,
& then your legs give out
& your arms can’t hold you together
& your feet won’t move you forward
& your hands keep letting go
& your brain won’t stop reminding you
& your eyes keep looking for his
& your lungs just hold their breath.
But first, your heart breaks;
because the human body is such a damned sympathetic thing.

Loveless.

I can’t be in love with you.
Because we won’t be in love with each other.

I’ll be in love with you
& you won’t know what to do with it.

Rock Bottom Glistens

You drained my soul of everything alive.
With empty eyes & hollow words,
That poured into open wounds.

Miserable hours crawled into days.
Days dug their roots into months.
Months took flight from the depths of darkness
& caught wind of a year.

The diamonds of rock bottom glisten.
Call to hope which blossomed out of sad eyes.
Life, as it so often does, pulls on.

We dig, tooth and nail, out of the pits of despair
To catch just a lung-full of fresh, promising, air.