The Heart, it Hurts Most Days

Talk to me through layered bricks,

Cracks that surface there,

Tell me to ignore my thoughts,

My heart told not to bear.

 

No, don’t need your sympathy,

Acknowledgement, your kiss.

Your kiss, I need like oxygen,

But no, I’ll breathe my fist.

 

You decide, you make the move.

I’ll play along your course.

You, you there, you’re all the same,

A heartless tour-de-force.

 

Patterns, disappointments welcome,

Room for one and all.

It seems that once you let one in,

The heart’s wide open, raw.

 

Takes in every worthless case,

To hang you there to fall.

To wait with sharpened ax to rope,

To claw the leveled wall.

 

But pause to write with bloodied ink,

The anguish that ensued.

The pitfalls that you might have dodged.

Through hindsight’s cloudy hue.

 

Our duty is to speak, to teach.

We each have one to save

Recognize the pain in all,

The heart, it hurts most days.

Reviews

[shoaib]

feeling this one
love your words they are always very real and relatable
great job

[Saraplenty]

"(Your kiss, I need like oxygen),
But fine, I’ll hold my breath."

I wonder how long I can hold my breath this time around.

[.]

This is really truly amazing! I love how you express your emotions. So Raw and yet so real. I loved the first two stanza's. This is really WOW, wonderful!!

[gravitylava]

woah woah woah woah woah, this was awesome! I've been feeling like this a lot lately, like people who should care about you don't give two s***s. The first two lines kind of captured that.
but dude I really loved this. thank you.

[sammyj]

wow such power

[FeliciaS (Poetic Prince..]

Awesome & worth the read

[Dream Weaver]

Lindsey, Very powerful write.
shattered emotion's scattered
about like gale force winds
150 miles an hour plus. Nicely
done.....

[Ishmael Astree]

You seem to take a stand for all women in this poem. I think it's a nice poem.

[Antonio Valentino]

Even with every happiness, I fight back a glint of tear trying to escape back to the clouds and sea of my undeserving.

Enjoyed this, immensely. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Antonio xx

[Steve]

Very sad...well written though.