Broken pieces of me

Broken pieces of me
I walk behind you 
You ask me if it is you I follow
And no I say
And no it is 
For following you I stopped
When my wholeness was broken
When I could no longer hold on 
For the bars all fell down,
And the rivers that fueled that burning desire dried out.

It is not you I follow.
No
It is the broken pieces of me
Those that you drop each day
When you look in my eyes with no remembrance of a goodly yesterday
I pick them up, I gather them;

And soon,
 I’ll find the perfect tailor
She’ll stitch ‘em up 
And soon,
These broken pieces of me
Will be mended to a better wholeness.
                                           James Kaluna 

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