Poem | Why We Together

Something in me knew that it’d happen,

that somehow across borders

across time zones

across oceans,

I’d run into you.

My heart betrays me,

however brief

when I look to the sky

for the reason why

he would bring you again to me,

when I have spent the last

few years

of sleepless nights

trying to scrub you

from my soul.

It wasn’t very long before

I remembered why

I was so enamored with you.

So, attached.

So in love.

…but that feeling wasn’t without

its own weight.

its own,

drowning.

It was a moment,

but a moment was all I needed.

Of pain, of past

of despair

to remind myself also

why we together were

so

broken.