Heartbreaker

A heart is something you really should guard

because, you know, all’s fair in love and war.

Some hearts that I find are already scarred,

healed, only to be broken once more.

 

While she cradles close the beating fragments,

fragments that I know, with time, will heal

but never truly whole �" I leave indents

I’m looking for the perfect shred to steal.

 

I carefully extract the smallest shard

to add to the collection around my neck.

The rest I find very easy to discard,

my trophy is now found amongst the wreck.

 

Love never lasts, so I live with a plan;

take a heart and break it while you still can.