Heart of Destruction

Black smothers my heart
Suffocating it
Then all it takes
Is one little thing
To smash
My now brittle heart
To smithereens

Shards now free
The air from my lungs
Subjecting them to
A shared fate

Not content on
Robbing me of air
The shards of my heart
Tear through
My entire body
Searing pain
Like thousands of
Red hot pokers
Burning through me
At once

Eventually
The pieces of my heart
Pierce through
My skin
And fall
To the floor

I’m broken
And I’m bloody
Cut to pieces
By my own
Broken heart

Shaking from
The shock
Breathless from
The pain
I look at the mess
Before my eyes
And wonder how
I can possibly
Rebuild myself again

© Toni Higgs 13/08/10