It’s really that bad

and it’s worse

and it isn’t.

The thing that you did

that they did

and you didn’t.

It is and it isn’t.

It’s yours and

it’s not.

Your ears hear the cracks,

but they don’t want to listen.

Stop.

And be

with it all.

Eva Schiffer is a German who works, lives, gardens, bakes and raises her children in Washington, DC. For her poetry she digs deep (back into the 16th century at times) into her family history or picks up random debris on her way to the metro.