I Came Back

I came back,
Not to what I left; I came back to something deeper in my chest.
I came back through every loss and crack.
I came back, and I'm never going back, back, back.
I came back.
Coming back is not the same as starting over,
Arriving nowhere, what the leaving cost.
Every road that took me further from the center taught me what I'd almost lost: death and loss.
Not the same thing.
Not who I was.
Back but different.