I Broke Your Heart

Malaïka
2 min readJun 24, 2022

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Image by 愚木混株 Cdd20 from Pixabay

You gave me your heart and I broke it.

I dropped it on the floor and it shattered into pieces.

I wish I could help you pick it up,

But my trembling hands would only cause more damage,

And so, I watch you struggle with tear-filled eyes,

Your fingers, red and bleeding from the sharp fragments of what used to live in your chest.

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I remember the day you gave me that beating thing,

It was warm and heavy,

Filled with so many emotions and memories,

Our rhythms would often sync,

And I would lose track of whose heart was whose,

You entrusted it to me,

And I broke it.

I broke our relationship,

I broke our love,

I broke our faith in each other,

But most of all,

I broke your heart.

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I wish my tears could fix it,

I would use them like glue,

Binding each tiny shard back together,

It wouldn’t matter if it cuts my skin,

Heartbreak is more painful.

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Still, I would only get in the way.

So instead, I will give you space to grieve the loss of what we were.

I’m sorry I let go,

My own heart has its own fissures,

And as a result,

My hands are not stable,

But I will learn to sew,

And stitch my heart whole

As it once was.

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