Heart Shaped Balloon

I gave you a balloon, It held my life inside. Within a shiny rubber tube components of my soul aligned, a sign, I became something new for you... Memories Feelings Ideas Each speck a tickle upon my breath, a tiny bubble of nuanced personality; The strengths of me debrided the secrets of my lungs, pink and untold for you to confide, ease trouble in eyes before me. Yet were you astute? Could your mind compute the depth of the beautiful find floating before you? You bent, my unique particles ended their show of strength broken in length; You twisted, crushed and divided my dreams subsided... Molded to an unrecognizable form, I became your norm. Though you never knew, my secret hope to survive my own gift thrive and lift, lay within you. Your grip thirsted control so long, the pieces of me left burst to skitter away in song among soaring clouds, leaving shrouds of pain grounded and gone... Flying far from the land one beautiful day, away from you and the broken balloon that laid in your hand.