through all of the times
i've been shattered
beaten
crushed
trampled torn tattered
scattered to the wind
haphazardly
left aside,
forgotten;

i always thought that
one day
i'd find someone who
would carefully
delicately
gather my fragments
of scar and bone
one by one
and put me back
together.

i realize now
it was you i needed.

not to fix me,
but to fit
in the spaces
between my broken
     pieces.