Hidden Emotion

These Broken Pieces

I took my heart

and held it out to you,

Fragile, fluttering,

Like the beat of new butterfly wings.

You looked my heart

and slowly,

Slowly,

You took it in your hands.

You had me,

And you knew you did.

Time passed,

and I started to believe that

I had you too.

You let me see you,

The true you,

and I loved you.

I loved every part of you,

and I thought you felt the same.

Then, something changed,

Like I knew it would.

Maybe my heart,

My care,

My love,

Was too much for you.

You put up the walls

That I had knocked down.

You held my heart

and shattered it.

Butterfly wings

into shards of glass.

You left me behind

Broken.

But still

After all this time

These broken pieces still

belong

to

you.