sutures

The distance between us tears at me,
a blade drawn slow across the chest,
and still I bleed your name
as if the blood could bridge the darkness.

I dream of your body beside mine,
our wounds pressed together,
blood mingling into something holy.
A promise that we will survive the tearing.

What kills me now,
will one day bloomโ€”
for nothing can keep apart,
what was stitched together
before we were born