I will remember tomorrow what I found fruitful today
Like a sudden symptom come alive
A cavity
Decaying my roots
The trees I grew up climbing
Rhyming limb after limb

I broke my right leg twice
Once while jumping off the jungle gym
Holding Chip and Dale stuffed animals
With a beaming smile in my elementary hands
Back then it meant more

Another time broken again to
Remind myself this can still happen
It's always happened
The fracture
The departure
The flight from here or there and
Farther

Look it's like a crutch
Holding you up
Or holding you back
Remember breaking your arm
When you could've broken your back
For lack of a better word:
Dramatic
Fell from a fence
As dense as my youth and
Made as much sense as you or I do
But I tumbled head over feet
To have a meet and greet handshake with the grass that kicked my ***

The tears ran down my face as if
Disgrace had painted my way
I walked the long way around Because stopping to think or look behind me
Apparently wasn't an option

Still crying tears of embarrassment
I said they pushed me but they didn't
A full circle fall
Back to where I started
Uninjured and insured
Go to bed back to where I started again
In the morning my bruises will be fresh
As last night with the sunset
But now the orange juice brings it out best
And my army is broken
Acknowledged at last
Cast in blue
Singing my favorite colour
Thinking the authorities will
Swoop in and take my mother

But they had another thing coming

Me

Broken bleeding
Disorganized obsessively
Compulsive jealous
User taker
Bridge breaker

Me