Leny Rose M. Villasis

Threads

He handed me threads, and I held them.

Maybe I wanted to believe

they\'ll make something whole,

more than I wanted to ask

why some pieces were missing.

 

He told me they tied the knots,

But it had already fallen apart,

And somehow, I ended up threading

Through the gaps that were never fixed.

 

The same lines kept showing up.

Threads have a way of tracing what we’d rather forget.

I pulled too hard, and I slipped,

Still tangled in the ends we never tied.

 

Then he passed his loose ends, 

into someone else\'s hands.

Just like before.

Just like after.