Kintsugi

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The verb tense feels a little bit off. So, you start in past tense- "spoke", "declared", "watched"- and then switch to future tense "will do", "will carry". Technically, that could be correct, but I think it would sound smoother if you used present tense instead, because the present is the future of the past... if that makes sense. Basically:

"I watched you crumble and put yourself back together countless times,

fully aware that you'd do it all again the next day and the day after that

until you dragged yourself out of hell and crawled your way into my arms.

And I will carry you the rest of the way home"

Future tense for that last line because it's important that it sounds like a promise and not just an action. "Tomorrow" is a word related to the present, so it needs to be substituted out for "the next day"- if you want to give off the feeling of "this happens over and over again" you can say something like "for countless overmorrows".

Even this sounds a tad strange. The better advice would probably be just to write in present tense to begin with:

"We speak in hesitations and secret, tender moments

and declare our love in the comfort of solitude.

I watch you crumble and put yourself back together countless times,

fully aware that you will do it all again tomorrow and the next day and the day after that"

etcetera.

As for the poem's contents, I really liked them! Some lines struck hard- "And I will carry you the rest of the way home" is straight up melancholic, even if it has a positive meaning. I can see that the double use of the word "tender" across the opening and closing lines might have been intentional, but I didn't like it much; I would replace one of them with a synonym. I think the poem will work better with punctuation and capitalization dependent on the sentence, not the line. Those are just my preferences, but they have a tendency to bring out the simple emotions.

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I really feel this poem. I've been there. I am there. The beauty of being broken. Thank you for this.

I agree with the previous critique on the tense change, but I love the idea of the kintsugi as a mending process.

It might be interesting to weave in some of that imagery (ie. I would nurse you back to health Powdered lacquer pressed into my fingertips Sickly sweet and so tender it hurts)

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