i broke her
as she was breaking me
i tried so hard to gather the shards of myself
that i pushed them into her veins
we insisted we needed each other
but we couldn't save each other
and so as i grasped for her hand the shards stuck me through every nerve
and yet as i pulled away i took with me
a piece of her
until she was shattering at every edge
unrecognizable
there was no painless way out
and so we shattered
