Dear Heart

You have always been so very weak Fragile, soft and oh so meek. Crying over every broken dream Vulnerable to me you did seem. So I built a wall so very strong To protect you from every wrong. I built a wall so very high A wall to keep you from the why. I added bricks year for year Would not let life come near, For you were too soft you see To handle what life presented me. Yet in you a vaguely subtle yearning An inexplicable, unreasonable burning, To open the sturdy door so wide And invite the pain to come inside. For I know that you do not see The lurking, grinning enemy, Waiting to tear you apart Leaving me with a broken heart. I know you cannot handle the pain That life hands out again and again. High and tall I built these walls And simply ignore your frustrated calls.