perhaps this is how a heart unravels; like a pearl embedded within a ball of string while you slowly unravel each layer until the inside of your heart is undone only to be remade again— ***** laundry, they used to call it; when something you once loved became shameful, like the very first time the colour red became a crime no longer a colour of love and passion but a reminder of the way roses can bite and how from then on every memory and moment was clouded by that anger, that desire to remake something completely- yet it’s all reminiscent of the time I faced everything, peeled pushed dug everything up all the ugly roots the capillaries until my heart was revealed, like a scarred jewel waiting to be understood; an old woman once told me that when bad things occur it means that something brilliant will soon accompany it; that just like that, the moon can unwind itself until it shows both the dark and the light at once— for just like the heart it’s remade itself time after time after time.