"To Rend This Tattered Heart"
Your hand casually touches my breast, cupping it in your palm
Willingly I allow you to reach inside me, your fingers probing first my ribcage
Then brushing against my slow beating heart, and my tempo quickens
My skin flushes scarlet – desire rises from within me, seeking copulation with your touch
My head tilts back and my mouth opens, seeking your taste, your tongue, your teeth
I must have expected something a little different:
Something feral like teeth prints on my shoulder, not this cascade of pain
My eyes grow wide as you pull and rip, and blood explodes into the air
The steady tear of the veins in my heart, leaving a trail of broken hopes and dreams
Behind you like a red streak of pain, a white breast shattered by this loathsome aspiration
A height to which I once climbed, and it for a brief moment it was glorious
How is it that something so wonderful and divine has the power to utterly destroy?
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I just went through a very difficult breakup and this poem is an attempt to not only illustrate my pain, but to act as therapy. When I was with him, I lost my ability to write. At first it was nothing, I was unconcerned. But now I realize what I have lost in those months. Yet my muse has returned from her long captivity. Crits and suggestions would be great - as well as title ideas, as "Shatter" is somewhat less than desired.
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