Missing: Pieces of Me

SPLINTERED HEART like a leg severed, ripped loose: the phantom limb throbs and aches knowing yet unwilling, unable to accept that it's only a ghost playing evil pranks sitting frozen and paralytic from the weight, the frightful weight dragging, forcing down the head welding chin to collarbone... heavy, crushing feeling on the chest punishing pressure on the heart a heart at the point of imploding... alarm clock crying, screaming: time warp between sleep and awake when not yet aware of where one is not yet aware of what or who one is a split-second reprieve until---- (oh, it really did happen oh, I don’t have a leg now oh, you have been torn loose taking pieces of me with you) it has been proven medically: people with life threatening seizures can eventually function normally with half of their brains removed not so with a splintered heart not so with half a heart... Submitted for: Catie’s Free Verse Extravaganza contest Theme: Half a Heart