Finding Wholeness

“A part of me dwells within you.
I cannot feel whole - 
as though something in me 
has been permanently missing.
I am only half of myself --
half of one life.
At times I can feel--
The splintered parts of my soul;
The gaping void.
Is that why, sometimes, I can’t breathe? 

I want to live again
Seal the splinters --
with love.
I want to breathe again
Into the abyss of the void.
I want to let life--
Flow through me,
And piece by piece
make me whole again.”

-d.h.