Numb
her friend asked her
"did he break your heart?"
she replied,
while staring blankly at her shoes,
and clutching the crinkled note tightly
in her shaking hands,
"what heart?"
She was too numb to know.
Copyright © Chamonique Knowles | Year Posted 2009
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