Carved out

Unresolved

He pulled back his fist

Bursting through muscle, sinew and bone 

Tearing out the part of him

He'd given for safe keeping

finding herself abruptly gutted 

She kept a man's fears and doubts inside the cavity of her chest 

Nestled between her truths, nursed and bathed the rotted pieces of another

Pulsing blood and oxygen through the deteriorating tissue 

Wanted to give life to the very thing 

That kills him and now eats her

A festering timeless wound

the sharp and jagged edges tearing open her insides

the questions haunting

how come? why me? did you ever love me, truly?

He does not answer 

Leaving behind the pieces

Of depravity he bore into her

By loving her such and not enough and never too much

He was sewn into her:

You took in that wailing babe

Brought it to your chest

To love into wholeness, while denying your own needs 

Starving to death he suckled from the tit until it was bone dry

And he is still empty

After emptying you and he 

cries 

out

you were such

and not enough

and always too much

keeping me, always, from loving another fully