Cut Is So Deep

Sometimes the cut is so deep
No woe-in-me tale is enough*
This cut is my December seventh
My nine eleven,
My I can’t-live-without-him tale

Each story has a gory monster
But I never would have pictured him
I never thought he would be the star
My fiend, my ogre
In the my-life-is-so-depressing saga

Lives can change, you can live with anything
If you have what you can’t live without
He taught me how sudden, how profound
My loneliness can be
I-don’t-want-this-to-happen-to-me now

*Love by Toni Morrison