Fractions

How strange to reread the poetry of your youth

Written in a time before

Love

Loss

Tragedy

Your eloquence and idealism 

Intertwined

With your naivety

You were so worried about being alone then

The world could end if you had to endure

One

More

Day

Alone

Now, you know of the safety in being alone

How to define yourself

As a true individual

Not some twenty year old who believed that she 

Had

To be with someone

To be whole