By M. Cynthia Cheung
If you had come
to fruition
you’d be a tangled mess,
limbs, organs, eyes,
a thing not quite
able to live.
As it was,
you didn’t.
That tubular heart
never beat.
Now I am
blank, scraped
bare.
Every month when I bleed
the pain of you returns.
M. Cynthia Cheung is a practicing physician in the United States who also writes poetry.