Heart Coup

You’re a collision

A fifty-five car pile up

Inside the bones that bar up my heart

I can’t conceive of how to start

Explaining you

Us

It’s a bust

A coup

Two hundred rocks inside my shoes

Limping bloody footed through

This life I thought Love would save

Now I see the signs like graffiti in the cave

I always knew

Fuck!

I always knew

Now what the hell do I do?

How do I unpack these bags?

Not sure how I unsee this

Or why at this point

You may have ruined a childhood dream

But I guess if that’s true

That’s all on me

So I’ll let you go

Just know …

For once in my life

I believed