Heartbreak

and you broke my heart,
like the arrows of rain
impinging upon a vacant earth
who looked to the sky,
only to wet her lips
with a song
waiting to be sung;
the pain and tightness
now yielding
to the uncertain space -
a quiet, gentle becoming
into something soft and pliable,
expunging stiff shells,
and giving
all of myself
to the very quiver
from where they came.