queued thoughts

XIII

i see you

i see them

i see you

i see them

i see you as this fragile broken piece

that's missing from my life

you may not fit perfectly

but i held you close by anyway

the hole was too big

but you covered it enough

enough for me to be fooled that you'd stay

you fell out

thinking you weren't enough

my void deepened and widened

i see them

they see you

they see you as this fragile broken piece

the piece that nobody would fit anywhere

they toss you around

unafraid of you falling and breaking further

you fell at their feet

they laughed and walked away

leaving you unbroken, unconsolable, unreachable

i tried to pick you up

but you pricked me

leaving me bleeding and battled

i watched as another

picked you up

and another

and another

trying to fit you into their fragile broken parts

you didn't quite fit

they didn't realise

they needed all your little pieces

your smallest pieces were left on the ground

i tried to pick you up

i tried to fill my void

but i needed all of you

to fill me

to make my fragile little heart a little more whole again.

-b