i lost my way

i lost my way, on avenues of promise, 

i built walls, on fragile grounds of loss,

you reached in, picking me up, as I lay strewn amidst the detritus,

you turned to me, and i to you,

fortifying our core, us together,

and,

that is the talisman that keeps on keeping us true …

why him ?

why him ?

why, they ask her,

why him?

she always says the

day we met,

and spoke.

and laughed.

she felt,

all she needed to be

was herself