Cracked

my words in poems

are disjointed

cracking on bad structure

the hinge of the meaning

hidden in convoluted phrasing

whereas stories seem to be

more open ended

a way to put together thoughts

without losing sight

of the end result

a poem is merely

a single thought

crushed into uneven

stanzas and presented

with nothing but love

but stories are easy

to follow and lead

us to the very spot

where we left ourselves

the most vulnerable part

of prose being the telling

of how we find our way home