81 You were the missing piece in my entangled puzzle -- Without a whole, I did not know who I should be. My errant eyes were separated from my mouth. Between the right and left, my idle hands were split. Between my legs, I had an empty aching gap. Between my hips, I had a hollow hurting breach. I had a cleft between my breasts. I had a crack Between my arms. I had, between my eyes, a rift. A lacking bone, a letter lost in haunting words -- Between my hands, between my breasts, between my hips -- A needed link, a part of my divided whole -- In the entangled puzzle, you were my missing piece.







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