Poem I came up with after hearing a song. |
My Heart? Why was this pain so intense? Why wasn’t the thing beating in my chest my own? My body had belonged to me before you came Before you slowly claimed the pieces of my heart It was a year ago when you invaded my chest When we first met your smiled claimed an inch of my heart Your deep soulful eyes claimed another As weeks passed your personality consumed my heart at a rapid pace Until I held only a small corner At that time I did not care When you were around me my heart was so light and unburned It was not long until your invasion had claimed both mind and soul. But when that day occurred When I found you with that other person I shudder to think of my mangling heart That quickly twisted in itself Your soulful eyes that once had been full of love Now looked at me with content and satisfaction When you saw my soul breaking; my mind shutting down It was then I bolted to my dark shadows The physical pain of my heart slowly tearing and wreathing Caused tears, my sanity, to spill out of my eyes Somehow my heart continued to beat A small part of my organ was still alive But it was inhibited by the mangled parts Barely able to pump blood through my shredded heart vessels Day by day I tried to reclaim my heart The battles were fought for hours upon hours Yet I did not know their outcome For my mind was frozen and numb Perhaps I won back a few centimeters Or maybe I lost the rest of my heart Then there was a day when I met a girl I saw some light in her eyes That reminded me of you She began to awake my mind And took brave steps into an empty temple full of demons She was patient with my distrust With the way I recoiled from her at times The times I snapped at her and told her to leave me alone She stubbornly stood her ground in your desolate temple And slew demon by demon Until she could take a step forward, deeper into my withered heart It took months for her to overcome the demons And when she finally stood in the center of this temple She filled it with light and warmth I could actually feel my heart pump without pain My face could show expressions I thought I would never feel again I also reclaimed some of my heart And, wearily, let her it from me As the years passed Now I am going to spend the rest of my life with her The strong brave warrior who fought to claim me My glourious Linda |