A Better Broken Heart

I don't know what love is anymore

Maybe I never did all along

I'm lonely and I pace upon the floor

Listening to a former favorite song

My heart feels hollow, my mind feels numb

My dreams confuse me now

I'm gonna learn to love again somehow

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But let it be a better love

Not a cure for my lonely

Something from heaven above

A love that's selfless only

Give my heart to those who need it most

To their needs let me be host

Because I don't want it ... they can have it ... take my heart

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I felt the thrill of romance time and again

It took my breath away, a song my heart did play

But everytime it left my heart so broken

Let it be broken for a greater cause today

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God I need a better love

Not a cure for my lonely

Something from heaven above

A love that's selfless only

Give my heart to those who need it most

To their needs let me be host

Because I don't want it ... they can have it ... take my heart

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A broken heart, broken over those who need it most

A selfless love, endowed from God above

A dream to share, let them know I care

Take my broken heart and tears and transform me

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My loneliness ... isn't serving anyone

Even me ... it just blocks out the sun

My bitterness ... take it away I pray

So transform my selfishness to selflessness today

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And let me love again

Love the ones who need

Let me love and then

For them I'll sow the seed

Make tomorrow better, let that be my legacy

Let my broken-hearted love be worth it, please

Reviews

[GentleBreeze]

Love can be a complicated thing. You have captured the essence of love In this piece. I cant find a single thing wrong with this poem.. Wonderful!

~ GentleBreeze ~

[Shelly Araujo]

ok Dag, I am praying for you to find what you put so well here. I feel the longing and need, but you also express a sensitivity that clearly comes through and deserves all the good out there.

[Wildfleour]

Sounds like a love ballad. I can hear the music in my mind.

After reading this, I understand your email.

[Kathryn Star, Shine!]

I like this poem, reads more like a spoken word, or prose. Either way, the words had a special quality in them that threw you into your mindset, not allowing for my own to enter. You took this poem and truly said what you wanted to with out the thoughts of me wanting to interject. I really liked it!