Heart-Breaker
I used to think that
there were these little bones in my heart, and
when they got broken, the doctors would put
a bright pink cast on my heart.
But it doesn't work like that.
You can't put a cast on your heart, and even if you could,
there isn't a cast big enough to hold every single piece
my heart has broken into.
There isn't a glue strong enough to put it back
together, and keep you from breaking
it, yet again.
So next time you adorn yourself with such a label as,
"Heart-breaker," perhaps you should imagine
what it would be like when he breaks your heart.
The most exquisite truth of all is this:
I may be broken.
I am not
d e s t r o y e d.
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Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 653 |
Words | 147 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 6, 3, 4 |
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