Sum

the float of fragments

the boundaries within borders

the severed

the dislocated

the lost

time gnashes at the whole

to erode the stone into sand

and cast the grains into 

the deep beyond the sky

our broken bodies are laid

into earth to be crushed by its appetite

and disassemble into the remains of the soil

we leave bits of ourselves with that time

and this event

and that person who we never knew

and become the stones becoming sand

surrendering ourselves to the inevitable

of never remaining wholly as is

those pieces we were

those pieces we remain

as they become more than we are

as they become the sum of our selves