Pieces
Why can't you just leave
without leaving a piece of you
the piece that warms without touching
and chills to the bone through?
Why can't you just leave
and leave me alone
why must you pull me down
like undertows, I'm snatched and thrown
about in the depths of the sea
up for air only to grieve
of this, I cannot conceive
the shore too far to retrieve
to pull me back through
why can't you just leave
without leaving a piece of you
and taking a piece of me.