what can i say?
(to friends who have separated)
breaking apart two who had become one seems criminally
wrong nevertheless there are those of us who
can not stay once love has gone
it deeply hurt me to deeply hurt my ex
but i did, and, because i did, i know
the cruel charity of not staying when i realized "i had to go"
there is a loneliness that doesn't desire company
a weariness which sleep can never erase
here we unavoidably lick the lead of our failures, a taste
which poisons the sweetness of every yesterday
i continue to love you both dearly and will miss
your wholeness surely—what more need be said?
when one heart is broken both sides are bloodied—it is
impossible to talk to one without thinking of the other
—kalamu ya salaam