Tangled Heart

With a final drop of blood my heart collapsed

A crimson stain the soil greedily drank.

Slowly, a blackened cane appeared and grew.

Not straight and tall, but crooked. A tangled mess of branches.

Over time, the brambles grew into a heart shaped thicket.

Strong.

Thriving.

Its branches and thorns glistening a deep ebony.

The night velvet leaves swallowing the sunlight as night devours day.

And there my spirit reclaimed my heart.

A thorny, blackened thicket.

That grew from chaos and refused to become fragile again.

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u/2xduran — 1 day ago

A Scar

All the promises we made

The empty words displayed

Strewn as breadcrumbs on the ground

Emptiness the echoing sound

Kiss my eyes as they close on you

My cold calculation your only due

For you have made what I’ve become

Cold, heartless and ultimately numb

I see you now, the truth unveiled

A child, crying - leaving my heart jailed

Now, as the chains fall. I’m finally freed.

From your clever manipulation, for all have seen,

What you were and what you are

A spot on my heart… a healing scar.

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u/2xduran — 2 days ago

Relentless

Your whisper holds me like a promise

An unheard echo of my heart’s desire

There’s a thrumming in my chest that relentlessly beats for you

A keening that aches for your gentle touch

To soothe the savage beast trapped within my ribs.

Hunger

Desire

Lust

Three unquenchable ravenings that claw at its boney cage.

Which can only be sated by you.

Your heat can tame the beast

Your fire can quell his hunger

And your embers, he can call home.

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u/2xduran — 6 days ago