Healing Knife
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Have you ever heard of a heart
Once accepting of love, now coldly distant?
Once pristine, now tainted with distrust
And full of gunk inside?
Now, it's unsure of itself,
Playing it safe after being torn in half
One too many times, fearing yet another
Dose of misfortune's poison pill.
Now afraid to unlock its door
And leave it ajar for love to walk back in.
May courage be the healing knife
Which doctors this poor heart
May unconditional love
Dissect it, drain its abscess,
Then, stitch it shut as a tailor
Would a split seam.
Date posted: 04/02/2016
Copyright © Edward Ibeh | Year Posted 2016
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