On Unraveling:
Maybe you need failure
Maybe it reminds you what's important to you
Maybe in the midst of yearning and longing and dreaming and wanting
You let everything around you
Unravel
So that you can put it all back together
For the hundredth time
Because you remember that it's worth it
Only after it's in tatters around your feet
Maybe
Fitting the pieces back together
Is the win you need
To forget the loss
All the bits of your identity
Thrown into chaos
Ruin
While your back was turned
Eyes fixed on hallucinations
Horizons
On different planets
Stars
In other galaxies
Forgetting to water the plants
Around my own feet
Brought back to Earth inch by inch
He told me I'm pretty
Three days before he died
She begged me to stay on the phone
Two days before she made her significant attempt
I failed two papers
Realizing four days past the due date
I was too late
Shouldering the torment and the agony
As one
Just as before
Just as it will always be
The scene of wreckage sinks
Into the recesses of my awareness
I remember
Time to rebuild
Alone again