Glass Hearts

I stand alone In the rain of this world Whose falling droplets Collect around my feet create a river and I don’t know how to swim I stand alone In the rain of this world Whose falling droplets Collect around my feet, create a river and I am powerless against its current I try to keep my head above the surface, But the relentless pull of gravity drags me down And suspends me in the cool liquid That fills my lungs and steals the oxygen from them Like a thief in the night steals a life The water is the blue of melancholy With the aura of suffocation And the translucent iridescence of your glass hearts One by one, though, they float away and are left to the mercy of the torrent In which no extension of limbs can retrieve them. You trusted me with you glass hearts That beat with the speed of a hummingbird’s wings That pumped expectations and satisfaction like blood That held nothing more than their breathtaking beauty That you allowed me to see So precious and delicate But, in my possession, Perpetually susceptible to damage I stand alone In the rain of this world Whose falling droplets Represent every promise that I have broken to you I accepted your hearts When I knew that I was not capable of making them safe I told you that I could hold you together When I could barely keep myself from falling apart I fooled us all into thinking that you could rely on me But the weight of crystalline on my back caused me to shatter I let the glass slip away in a moment of weakness Through fingers that were never fit to carry them in the first place Paralyzed in icy water You gave me your glass hearts With an inhale of expectancy And now that I have failed you there is nothing more, So please, Don’t hold your breath. I stand alone In the rain of this world And as I watch you float further and further away from me, My heart of flesh beats its last beat: An apology to you