I am unravelling,
and everyone is watching you
make a patchwork quilt of me.

Each square bleeding into the next
with dissolving stitches,
allowing my fabric to heal

with minimal scarring to the
image of a beating heart,
pumping hopefully,

in spite of your needle.

11/28/2011

Posted on 11/28/2011
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