Calcium

These flowers dug roots deep
where the bodies, where the old love
grows.

It doesn't grow up, it grows down.
You don't grow up, you grow down.

This love/loss & breakdowns,
the syntax of decay, the questions.

And if?

If you ask me one more time, I'll say:

"I don't know, but I want to know,"
and I'll mean it but you'll say that

our love-bones need calcium
they are brittle & they break.

We break.
We dig our graves deep.
We bury time & love & memories
like we would bury ourselves.

We bury time & love & loss
like we would or could never
unearth them.

We die & we break quietly,

But we dig our graves deep.