The Human Heart

My heavy heart
Here we are
Once again
The aim:
To re calibrate
A tired relic
I know
So many times before
I have asked this of you
You have trusted
And I have failed
Each path
More treacherous than the last
So it seemed
We had reached some end
or better
some beginning
But it appears
We begin again
For some time now
We have been at odds
I have carried the burden you bare
By choice
I felt there was no other way
But what if I told you
Our mold is one in the same
When you ache
I ache
Oh my heavy heart
I feel what you feel
Your defeat
Leaves me
Hollow
I’m weightless
But not free
As if at any moment
A whisper
Could crush my very breath
But the whisper we wait for
I hate to say
- - -
My God
I hate to be the one to break you once again
But I have gone too long
Living half truths
Believing that you and I
Could bridge this divide
All on our own
So if I may
Speak plainly
My sweet heavy heart
We must seek
We must find
Piece of mind
Within the chaos of solitude
I will not make promises
I know not how to keep
But I will keep you close
As safe as you can be
Behind bone and temporal human flesh
But words?
Whispers?
Silence?
Oh
My heavy heart
I have no remedy
For such things
And for that
I know not how to mend you

Just Doin’ Laundry

I met a man today who wore your shoes
But I’d never let him walk in them
(or on me)
(the way you have)
I’d never let him touch my skin
Or smell my hair
Mix his socks with mine
Or any other of his dirty laundry
Cause lord knows we have loads
So heavy
It’s been off balance
Too long to sort the delicates from the darks
Besides
My bleeding heart
Has stained your white knight image
Far beyond any bleaching miracle
I’ve wrung out my heart
Yet no amount of ironing
(or irony)
can remove the crease of time
So what’s a modern girl like me to do?
Invest in a good dry cleaner?
Or hang YOU out to dry?