My Heart Belongs to You

Atypical love poem

I’ve locked my heart inside this box

So you cannot rip it out again –



It’s buried three feet deep

So you cannot dance upon my bloody muscle –



I lost it in the woods somewhere

Somewhere it is safe from you –



My heart once beat slow

It once meant only pain

It gave you love when you proved impossible to love –



My heart withstood grimace

It stood strong against mistrust

But it finally fell limp with your brutality –



Yet My heart struggled to pump day after day –

Night after frigid night

Until it could – would not – pump for a second longer



I locked my heart in a box

Because I feared you –



I buried my heart deep

Because your reach was long –



I lost my heart

Because you did not want it –



Because of you          I am dead