a girl on a bench

those cracks 
in the earth 
are you 
in my skin 
deep 
with no chance 
of merging 
but i am 
an entire desert 
and you 
can only go 
so deep 
and stretch 
so far 
until you 
dwindle off 
to meet 
where i am 
whole again.

your cracks 
have shaped me 
not broken me.