You were something so constant
Something I never thought
Wouldn’t be there
In my life
In the words
In the pictures
In the lines of my story
I feel you forget me
The way I used to feel you breathe
The way you held me
Close to your chest
Safe
Secure
So
Sure
You’ve erased me
But with every piece of me
Each pixel, charcoal dot, ink speck
You erase a piece of you too
You can’t unsmooth a crumpled paper
You can’t get back what you’ve washed away
You can’t wish
That you can write yourself back in one day
The dust has settled
The magic has faded away
You once swept me off my feet
But now I hit the ground running
Long gone is us
A shadow of what we used to be
You there
Me here
Equally focused
Separately surviving
Us
To silence
Love
To nothing
You shattered me
You hurt me
Smashed me
Into a million transparent shards
Glittering on the hardwood floor
Yet You taught me how to rebuild
When fractured glass is in a circle surrounding you
You need to pick up the pieces
Mend them back together
To something more beautiful than what they once were
And that’s exactly what I did.