You sink your teeth in and never release.

A constant shock and AWE
you swim against the current always
keeping your head under water
forgetting to breath
and forgetting
who holds
you
down.

You are a glass bowl with the mentality of a diamond.
Embrace the air in motion,
hug the surface and meet your means to an…
Remember how it feels to be a shard
or part of an unfinished whole,
the light’s refraction pattern through an empty screen
or the statue carved into wood.

Remember who was there to glue the pieces back together,
because even though the hands were gentle
and the words kind,
the sound soothing,
a soft rhythm and
warm beat,
reminding
        that
the          tears
    would blend
with the
        rain,

that someone was there to pick the fragments
and endure the splinters.