When Did Your Heart Go Missing

This pulsing organ

Below my neck screams

From the havoc you have brought

Upon it.

 

It’s cry, like a rainstorm,

Attacks my every sense,

Howling like the wind,

Beating against the windows of my soul

Until I can only taste the

Metallic copper of insidious lies

Until I can only see the

Mere shadow of what was once

life, love, and beauty

Until it is all I hear

 

And yet you go about

Day to day

Smiling that smile that

Masks the villainous monster.

Throw around words meant

To ensnare and hypnotize

And yet you take no notice

Of the incessant pleas

Sounding all through the night

Betraying my broken heart of hearts

 

Because in order to feel another’s heart

You must have one of your own.