Setbacks

Setbacks are

seeing

you

as imperfect

and perfect

at the same time

broken

polished

beautiful

shining

decayed

my image of you is painful

holding onto it

is painful

wishing

for other events

to have occurred

instead

of painful

setbacks are imagining

you

here

or that you were here

when I was there

and why wasn’t I here

when you were there

setbacks are your words

the ones I use to guide me

they remind me

of you

forever

of you