My Heart is a Casket

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My Broken Heart

My heart is a casket,
buried in my chest.

It’s rotting bones
and a stench so strong
no one can bare it.

I’m a skeleton
of who I used to be,
a shell discharged
by a shotgun.

I’m dead inside,
a corpse of my former self.

You killed me.

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