A melodramatic moment…

My knee is surrounded in pouffery
A squishy semblance of what used to be
Pressing at the skin and scar
As if any day it will push too far
Poof-puff-bam—this knee
A memory of what once carried me

Now I drag this leg along
A dead weight of a life now gone
Aching to hike to step at last
On this bulging mass of wishes past

Not yet, not yet

When, when, when,

(Will I ever walk again?)