Intersection

The days will pass and the sand
in the hourglass can't run forever
unless one flips it upside down,
and then the sand and days will run again.

I don't want to break the hourglass.
Your life must continue to run,
you must continue to run
away from me.

Two years,
two paths within our glass.
I don't want to bring
you down with me.

And if our sands happen to intersect,
would you accept what I have become today,
and still remember the old image of me?
Does the mirror bolted at the back of your mind
still reflect the person you once knew?

Or will you shatter it because you never
did like stained glass?

I can't piece together disfigured fragments,
and you can't understand the whole picture.

Don't stay.

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A/N: This was a poem I wrote for a poetry course. This is the final product after three revisions, and although I liked some stuff I had in my original, I think this version is less clichéd and confusing. Originally, the poem was about Chris and Jill's reunion, but I decided to take another approach by writing something from Jill's POV-- that a separation may be the best for both of them because of who she is now prior to her rescue. Please let me know your thoughts/comments through a review. As always, thank you for reading!