Before we were

Each bone seemed to shatter inside me

When you told me we were over

As I felt my insides turn to water

A vast river of grief began to flow

But with no where to go

It pooled deep inside

And every time I cried

The ocean became deeper

Until I thought to drown

And felt myself to be

Almost extinguished

By the pain

And yet all these years hence

Now I see

How necessary it came to be

That I dissolve

For there was no container within you

To hold the flow of me

And so it had to be set free

And what became of my undoing

Was in the end both a renewing

And a discovery of so much more

Than I could have ever known

Realised or lived before

We were