I Found What I Needed

dance when you're broken open.
dance if you've torn the bandage off.
dance in the middle of the fighting.
dance in your blood.
dance when you're perfectly free.
~Rumi

i felt broken and raw.
we ripped off the bandages.
we fought
old wounds bled
quick cuttings and stabs
the flash of knives
there was blood, yours and mine
it ran together on the ground
it no longer mattered
then i felt free