How to Crush a Heart
Instructions for a feeling challenge
Let loose all your bridled
Rage
Allow vengeance to
Exact its toll
Sightlessly take aim
Smash into my heart
Bullet and bat
A mirrorball piñata
Filled with sanguine
Works of abstract art
Tip shattered
Shards scattered
Through veins shorn apart
Let the shards fly free
Red shining debris
Pouring from my veins
Tears slicking
The recently waxed floor
Dance among the
Shocking wreckage
Sliding on fragments of my
Once shining soul
Take a broomstick
Vault the crime scene
Threatening tender soles
Savagely twinkling
Glassily tinkling
Beat it before my
Cardiac attack
Can be reported
Or avenged
I will wait for the empty
Suits to arrive
Reassemble what is left
Jagged edges stitched
New seams sewn
Throughout deadened flesh
Shredded and abandoned
Left to grieve in peace
Before you drive me
Into the pavement
Once again
K.B. Silver
Narcissistic abuse is quietly destroying lives behind closed doors. Love is not found in an abusive relationship. Unfortunately, the specific strategy of love bombing and withholding affection is hard to detect at first, and if you grew up in a home with a parent who behaves this way, it can be even harder to break free from. Real love lifts all parties up; it doesn't grind one down for the other's ego.
" 4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous. It does not brag, does not get puffed up, 5 does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. 6 It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." 1Corinthians 13:4-7
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K.B. Silver
K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.
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This was so heartbreaking. You wrote it so beautifully. Loved your poem!
💖You opened with one of your best lines; 'Let loose all your bridled rage' carries such a heavy and inevitable pulse. 💖The moment that truly caught my eye was 'Tip shattered / Shards scattered' because I love the balanced isocolon you used there. There is no assonance to soften the blow; instead, it is as if I can hear the clicking, harsh reality of the scattered evolving into the shattered.
❤️🩹Awesomeness 👌
This is incredibly intense, and sure many will have experiences this