Collision

Foolish I am, writing love notes
to place amongst dusty flowers
a makeshift memorial from a long time ago
a roadside shrine in my heart

but - something happened here, on this spot
this is where the collision happened
Unintentional, accidental, cataclysmic
this is where it occurred

and I was changed forever, deformed
my heart wrenched in twain, cleaved asunder
and I cannot go back to the way it was
the pieces don’t fit together the way they did

a jagged rib bone knitting crooked -
the thought of you catches in my chest
blood from a scar long healed, tearing
I drink to remember the taste of your lips