when the patellar tendon ruptures
ruptured
you wonder if its
just you
falling apart
if the body is failing you
or you failing it
you wonder
if
its
just
you
bad things happen in threes
they say
cancer, says a father
surgery, says your knee
wait, says the distant love
bad things happen all the time
every day
not yours, support the man
heal, then fix yourself
she’ll find her, her way
But in all seriousness, knee injuries suck. It is not easy to go from 100 miles an hour every day to ice packs every chance I get. It’s hard not to feel sorry for myself. There’s plenty of reasons to do so, and the past week it’s been hard to write.
Don’t know what else to do. About any of it.