with broken hearts is
that Super Glue is a carcinogen.
Therefore, they can't be easily repaired.
They can only be consoled.
Broken hearts must be closely monitored.
At first, they are stunned
unaware that injury has even occurred.
Often, only close friends can provide diagnosis.
Broken hearts can't speak for themselves
Therefore, they go about as if everything is fine until
they realize something isn't fine.
One morning they wake up,
reach for the place reserved for love,
only to find that
love has left the body.
They begin to wonder if they have died.
And if they are dead,
"Why am I still beating?"
Then broken hearts get scared,
start pounding,
break through ribcages,
often cause nausea or drunken binges.
They actually bargain with bartenders
consult architects and seamstresses,
think that perhaps this is all a joke
or a dream
or a drunken stupor
and they have merely misplaced love
and love will come pick them up if they call.
'Cause love never lets broken hearts drive drunk.
So broken hearts call love at 3 AM
not realizing that love won't answer
and that love will pity their messages in the morning.
By morning, broken hearts are hung over
splitting their wounds deeper than
the sound of their favorite sex song.
And broken hearts begin to lag,
occasionally skip beats,
miss work
provoke tear ducts to random downpours,
contemplate suicide,
and homicide
and lobotomies.
And you can't talk to broken hearts
about how hearts don't have brains
so lobotomies are out of the question
because broken hearts are trying to heal
and healing comes in many forms.
Sometimes broken hearts are more
aggressive with healing
start building walls and damns
keeping the part of the heart that feels
isolated from the part that thinks.
Because broken hears are often the result of combat
and they must choose life over limb.
Who needs that left ventricle?
We have friends who will pump blood for us,
fill our chambers with thoughts like
"It is better to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at all"
or
"Think of all the other fish in the sea"
And sometimes this works.
Sometimes broken hearts take vacations,
sit on boats,
drop lines into water,
and catch some new happiness.
Other times,
broken hearts must consult lawyers,
close joint bank accounts,
take the children and go live with their mother.
Sometimes broken hearts go dancing
their chests as open and revealing as their low-cut shirts
You can spot them on the dance floor
all by themselves moving in a way that you
actually see them replace their heartbeats
with the beat of the music
or the heartbeats of strangers
dancing dangerously close.
Because broken hearts can
easily become kleptomaniacs
stealing any hearts or pieces of hearts they can
because something has to fill the hole
they have in their own
And if
"Why can't I use the parts of others to preserve myself?"
Because baby this is war
and this is love
and all is fair here
all is allowed here.
Except quick fixes.
Because what no one wants to admit
is that broken hearts are life-long injuries
Like arthritic knees or leukemia
they can remain in remission for years
only to return on rainy days
or during wedding ceremonies.
They can begin to leak or crack
like teeth fillings
Sometimes what broken hearts consider scar tissue
is merely a scab
and scabs fall off in water
and are hard not to pick at.
So when broken hearts have completed
what they they think is healing
they jump head first into water
or accidentally start to recall love
because they are tired of being numb to life.
Or broken hearts rip open old wounds
to compare this love to that love
or this new love's sprained beginning
to the break of the one that came first.
This is because broken hearts are always uncertain
split down the middle
trying to connect
to all the places they cut off.
And if you thought cell phone reception
caused tricky communication
broken hearts are still using tin cans and string.
Because you can't use cell phones around them
those things could seriously mess with people's hearts.
And you can't reason with broken hearts
They too often experience hysterical deafness
and are incapable of listneing
'cause after all hearts don't have ears.
They have four chambers
capable of living together or alone
yet unable to ever be fully repaired
The problem
with broken hearts is
that we all have them.
The problem
with broken hearts is
that none of us wants to admit it.
The problem
with broken hearts is
that the only way to fix them is to love them
And who has any love left to give?
(c)cheryl snow white 2007
from snow white lies
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