I write to put my thoughts into words

I write to navigate feelings into logic

I write to describe how my heart was shattered

How the broken trust caused it to go into thousands of tiny pieces

I write to explain how many others helped me gather them up

How many it took to find the pieces and put them into a bag

To loose count of how many more keep coming forward with another piece they found

Yet another piece I didn’t know was still lost

I write to explain to myself

That it really only took one person

One person to point out that this was nothing like broken glass

But merely a puzzle that had come apart

Pieces of all shapes and sizes

That connect together one by one

Without the need of glue

Each one a whole of itself

That eventually will find its way back together

To become the me that has since been lost

I write to explain

That the pieces did not fall all at once

But one or two here and there

That the pieces have been lost in many places throughout time

I write to express the pain, the fear, sadness and loss

I write to show the hope, the love, happiness and joy

I write because I don’t know how to speak the thoughts that run through my mind

They run in circles to a place that I cant even find

I don’t always find the words to speak

But I can usually the find the words to write

I write in hope that the ones that need to hear the words I cannot say

Will read them and understand there is more to me than what they see

There are pieces of me

Scattered to in places that I cannot see

That the people that find me with each missing one

Are helping me find the pieces of myself that I had long since forgotten

I write to share, to reach for common ground

To put thoughts into words

To help find those pieces

To let the one know that I am grateful he showed me the puzzle

To let them know that while I know I don’t have all the pieces

I at least have a way to start putting them back together

I write to let the ones helping me connect the pieces know

That without them

I wouldn’t be able to soon find the person that I have lost