A lifetime construction project, brick by brick for my heart …
No need to peer over the fortress.
Served me well, until …

In you, I began the undoing, beside you I saw walls tumble down …
now the shrapnel is stinging inside me,
Time will heal, but until …

What remains can't be moved without time now …
What you see is just rubble … what you hear will be quieted yet …
Why can't you stay with me while the work is undone, somehow, while I navigate … the pillars of regret?