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Heartless

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They call me heartless
I call them blind
If you could just take your bloody foot off the shards
You'll see it's not very hard to find.

They call me heartless
'Cause love songs don't make me cry
If I could cry
I would cry you a river
That would make the mighty oceans look dry.

They say if your heart was broken
You'd be dead
But am I really alive?
It's as dark and lonely
Like in a mother's womb
Waiting for a new beginning to arrive.

I'd laid my heart open
But you only saw the sign,
You told me it's nothing new
Bloody wrists mean nothing to you
Nonetheless it sounded pretty good
And asked me to get in line.

You said you felt nothing
That I couldn't make you feel guilty if I tried
That you hadn't done anything awful
So I laughed even though it tore me apart
And told you I only lied.

I woke up with my head spinning
And my world upside down
I knew I wasn't the same,
But I couldn't tell what was wrong;
I lay dazed in the hospital wing,
The doctors could only frown.

I'm so sorry I made such a mess
I promise to put it right,
Mom don't cry
It's just a spell
I'm feeling a bit off-colour
Please don't ask me why.

I spent the next months ailing
Struggling to get back on my feet,
All I could hear was your voice on replay
The pain would never stop,
Giving up was too simple
I just couldn't walk this one-way street.

I never thought I could fall so hard
Now I was lying with my face in the dirt
But I'll be alright
Don't worry about it
It's just a regular broken heart.

I would take all the blame
If I could only live with the shame
Forgive me,
But I want to live a little more,
This guilt you'll have to share
It's only fair,
So excuse me,
I'll leave some by your door.

They call me heartless
And they were right
I lost my heart long ago
'Cause I trusted it with my life
Never will I love again
Not even a shiny-armoured knight.
"If I should die tonight and the reason remains unknown,
tell not the whole world, but the one I love
that I died of a broken heart,
not because he loved me too little
but because I loved him too much".


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Edit: Third stanza. Hope it flows better this time.
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xlntwtch's avatar
The third stanza seems in need work. For me, the fourth and fifth lines don't make sense together, but they will with a rewrite.
I hope "you" find your heart soon, and let it beat strongly for you in the future.
This poem is moving and emotional in content for the most part. Repetition of "They call me heartless..." is works very well.
Wishing you all the best. Here... :heart: ...