when bruised is worse than broken

a break can be set, but some bruises never fade

My ribs cage in the wild beast pounding in my chest
And yet they couldn't keep my heart from falling that evening that you left

it cages in the pumping

that comes with the excitement of your name

so how on earth did it open wide for my heart to fall in pain

did you hold the key within

to unlock my misery 

but keep myself locked away when you were loving me

not shattered or broken now

but as a muscle it is bruised

black and blue and weakly beating

it still yearns for you

this love that you have stolen

only to throw away

the life now left in tatters 

and me begging you to stay

a cold and chill surrounding 

ice now fills my veins

my blood is now surrendered 

with my heart it fades away

that beast a wounded animal 

hidden to try to heal

sore and bruised and left by you

waiting for someone to replace

replace the way i felt with you and the flutter within my chest

replace the way you looked at me, the way you stole my breath

gone with every look at you, stolen with every touch

i loved how you took my breath away

until my lungs gave up 

i as now give up on you, and thus quit on myself

the hearts you take the lives you shake

will never regain health