What absolute lethergy A facade made of sharp smiles What an inadequacy Trap between fierce walls Of a want that had grown tentacles And transformed itself in to such Unbiased, raw need A need neither he nor I Neither the space we made between us Nor the breath we shared Could ever manage to fill And thus began the story of our crippeld hearts Though I promise you Yours had healed much better than mine For you had new fingers Plastering bandages over the hole I made when removing me was necessary Of such great importance, it was New delicate fingers fumbled With your fragile heart And your heart, bleeding as it was Let them cuddle it I do not blame it Though mine sores from bruises left untended From blows and punctures I never let others mend For with out the sting What will I have left To remind me of those bitter sweet Perhpas more bitter than sweet Times I had spent stitching you In to my very being