I was broken

The world had chewed me up

And spit me out

Onto the concrete below

Leaving me gasping for air

I didn’t care

If I lived or died

I tried to keep going

But knowing what a failure I’d been

So many sins committed

Made me sure

I was unlovable

Useless to all

Then I met you

Also less than whole

Visibly bleeding

From so many gashes

And slashes to your soul

The scars of every time

You’d let yourself

Or someone else down

Still puffy and painful

When your only fault

Is you were human

Less than perfect

By design

But now you are mine

And I yours

Joined forever

Not by some artificial construct

But because the pieces

Of what’s left of me

Are match and mate

To all that’s left of you

And when you take me

In your arms

Held fast skin to skin

It is akin to dying again

And I’m once again

Gasping for air

As you play my body

Like an instrument

I feel the surf

As heaven and earth

Conspire to end us

As wave upon wave

Of music and pleasure

Wash over us both

Leaving us battered and bruised

Yet soothed in ways

Too difficult to comprehend

You have mended

What damn near ended me

All while leaving me broken again

But this brokenness

Fixes the mess

I once was

And I am whole with you

And now we are broken

Together.