capacity \\ noun.

1. the ease with which you forgive but cannot forget.

2. when you stretch a rubber band until it runs into a wall, but before it breaks in two / a clay jar of water, the ones women carry on their heads in National Geographic magazines, that are filled, that overflow, that empty, and are filled again / the opening of your heart chakra, head back, chest skyward, the reach of your hands behind you, as far as they can go — you are a mountain, a bridge, a half-moon, but you will never be a whole moon. you will never be whole again.