Her Heavy Hearts

If only you’d have let her swim away
Why couldn’t you just let her swim away?
Always following, on currents of love and hate that converge in impossible undertows.

Forever battle ready, you finally got your war.
But Insults and injuries make the water too murky for a clear shot
While All the pretty pebbles you’ve collected sit heavy on your hull.
harmful little hearts. And hers, and hers, and her
Too slippery to stay, But Too precious to wash away.
Hold fast captain
For your ship is a woman too

Her heart swims in this ocean that you only sail upon.
When the surface rages, she’ll dive deeper. And hold her breath for a long long time.
Long enough to make friends with the sharks
To dull blue eyes black And swim on
a practiced porpoise, only breaking the surface with purpose.
Giving no gifts of breath for you old friend.
disappearing in the depths again far from your noise and nets.

A Calmed castaway
Cool rhythms in the dark guide her safely on
While Battles above, are dull hums and diffused lights.
Harpoons into endless blue, barely ripples to anyone but you.

Now those heavy hearts are finally home.
Sunken treasures lost with not a speck of rust to be found
Though so much pressure binds you still
To drown before you them let go.
Old friend, she swam away a long time ago.