Hard Hearted

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My Broken Heart

I had my heart broken once.

So I hide it and locked it
inside a treasure chest
and buried it in cement.

There it would be safe.

I never wanted anyone
to find it and risk having it
broken again.

I focused on myself
and never dared
search for love.

Until one day,
I opened it and found
that the stone has seeped
into the cracks.

My heart had
become impenetrable.

It had corroded
from not being used;
it didn’t even beat anymore.

It was dead.
It was completely useless.

It was unbreakable;
I had become hardhearted.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Inspired by: “Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.” By C.S. Lewis

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