This final piece
of me,
my overdue
completion -
that which makes
whole
the disparate parts
flailing
blindly
in the void.

Three decades
of unfinished business,
resolved,
in the sweetest
of instants -
tomorrow morphs
in real-time
vibrancy,
greeting me with
open arms.

Yet.
As my heart
overdoses
on love,
hungered by
famine years
of neglect,
my head overrules
its joy -
reason triumphs
in a realm
where it is
not welcome.

I weep