Inside my sleeve, I pull out my heart, <br />handing it to you, 'careful it's fragile, <br />and easily falls apart.' <br /> <br />Extending your arms, you take the heart in <br />your tender warm hands. <br />It falls into a million shattered pieces - on <br />the floor it lands. <br /> <br />You begin to bend down to pick it up, sorrow and <br />sadness in your eyes. <br /> <br />Apologies are not enough. <br /> <br />Looking at you with tears in my eyes, <br />I ask you not to pick up the pieces of a heart <br />that has fallen apart. <br /> <br />I am the one who needs to pick up the pieces of <br />my shattered heart - one by one, piece by piece. <br /> <br />I need to put it together again, some how. some way. <br /> <br />Each piece of my heart has a memory so true. <br />Each piece of my heart has part of you. <br /> <br />You are the one who is leaving to start a new lease on life. <br />I'll just be here on my knees picking up the pieces of a <br />heart that feels like it's being pierced with a knife. <br /> <br />All my tears won't keep you near <br />All my tears won't mend what's not here. <br /> <br />Again I look at you with a whisper in my voice, <br />The only way my heart will mend and finally be complete, <br />is if you and I can come together without being discreet. <br />You see, what we have here and today, helps me face the <br />world, with a love for you that gives a glow - <br />but now, my darling, you made a choice. <br /> <br />My heart is on this floor, shattered and broke. <br />With each piece I pick up - <br />I need to learn to let go.<br /><br />destiny tatum<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/shattered-pieces-3/
