Saturday, January 19, 2008

Broken

Once you and I were one.
We filled the nooks and crannies of
Each other's lonliness.
But, unfailingly, life began creeping in...
Insidiously finding every small fissure-
Pushing and shoving them into crevaces
Through which all the good could escape.
Now we are broken.

2 comments:

Sister Mary Lisa said...

Wow. Did you write this??

aka madre said...

Yes, sweetie. I wrote it 6 mos ago when I was feeling very frustrated with my relationship woes. I think you can guess which ones!