Damage

I tell you that love happened first, In order In that order— which is to be opened, Flayed the heart that at first flinched When the soul would blench at the sound of your voice That once was love, turned destroyer, You ask me if it was the chicken or the egg? I can’t say, I know my heart quivering beating jelly pulpy thing Would bet on the egg. I know that heart then liquefies and pours itself out in a massive torrential hemorrhage Painting the pathway crimson Congeals reconstitutes and reassembles into bricks, That creates a wall that I place neatly back in my chest.