Your touch left smudges on my heart
Your words inked into my skin
Your love seared into my bones
You left me battered and tarnished
Broken and disillusioned

Only fragments of self
Left to gather it all together
Dam the pain, flowing like a river
Stitching my tattered dreams
Recreating a better self

Time to leave the baggage
Return the smudges,
the words and the love
You left me tarnished
Fragmented but free