I remember when the pain came in,
Rising like a storm from my knee.
Soon I was cursing
everyone that I
loved,
And they were—in turn— cursing
me.
My knee never said—not a thing—
Nor cause-trailed back to the people I blamed.
Isn't that the worst?
To feel what you hate,
And still fail to learn what it's named.
There are thirteen-hundred tendons,
And I only notice the two that tear.
I never really take time
to watch them
move,
Or thank them
for being there.
The doctor calls this one
“left ACL”
– but
That's like calling me
“female, 29.”
I never named you,
tendon. But I
miss you. You were mine.
And soon I'll have a cadaver's white
Sinew stitched where you were, inside.
But I wish you were there, right now,
Whole in me— as I howl in my hobbled stride:
“This is all your fault! I hate you, I hate you!
You don't care about me! I don't need you,
okay?”
I won't learn
whose faces
I make cry
in the dark.
But I do
feel you—
and by you
I mean me—
anyway.
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