The Missing Piece

Heavy, heavy, heavy

Afraid, so afraid

Feeling little, vulnerable

Scared to hope

Wanting it

The “it” 

The “thing”

The feeling of it

Afraid to want it

Afraid to need it

Afraid to be it

The it, the thing

The last missing puzzle piece of a full life

That piece is such a big piece

Trying to make it small

Keep the looking for it not so important

The puzzle is almost finished

The picture is almost complete

If I can somehow shrink the missing piece, then the puzzle almost looks complete

Just overlook the missing piece

Look at the landscape of the puzzle, it is only missing a tree

Look at the house, only a small room incomplete

That is okay isn’t it?

No, I can not see past the hole in the puzzle, the unfinished part 

It is not a small piece missing, it is the biggest piece, the most important piece

That piece has to be here somewhere

I will keep looking for it

They wouldn’t make a puzzle and have a missing piece would they?