Just for a moment

And just for a moment 
You made me feel whole

As you told me bedtime stories,
the grown up kind 
The kind where loves makes monsters disappear 
And futures built on shards of glass 
Somehow never shatter…
or even pierce your skin

But stories told at sunset 
are forgotten as the sky gets dark 

Like it always does 

And just for a moment,
you broke me
into a thousand pieces 

I will no longer listen to bedtime stories 
I will instead
go out
alone
into the night 

Searching for the stars
that might obscure the darkness

If only just a little 

And then,
maybe,
Just for a moment 

Those stars might just shine bright enough 
To find some of the many pieces 
That you so casually threw away