Something inside
won’t survive
unless it’s broken.

This dark plank is
broken in two; you,
hard sister wanted

None of me, standing
by you, rain pounding
river swelling a deep

Star calling you,
big hair, big body,
vibrating, hot.

Still, something inside
was broken, disturbed,
unspoken, driven up

The mountain path
elbowing your way in;
talking your way out;

Words brash, knees brazen,
blazing feet, beautiful and
broken; demanding what

Was owed; you got it too;
your heart too restless
to lie down by any river;

Your body would not admit its
hurt. Broken, a wolf gulped your
meals. Hungry, your hunter felt

Trapped. A breathless star helped
you. Lightning hit my heart. I felt the
hurt inside my flesh.

By the river, that day apart from you, I
willed to stay. Alone this morning,
something inside me is still

Broken.