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"Vitrified Heart"
by Jeph Johnson
What do you do with your vitrified heart
When your life has collapsed and is falling apart?
Gilded in layers of pain that feels real
But shouldn’t exist when I’m there to heal
How do you move when you’re trapped in a daze?
Dead ends everywhere in a monotony maze
Blood never flows from a ceramic heart
We were thrown in the kiln, unready to part
Pliable, soft and ready to be mended
Relationships, like sculpted art are intended
Stagnation can never wash away strife
For without a pulse to circulate life
The heart harbors hurtfulness and hardens to glass
And we never again can reclaim our past
I may never again hold that place in your heart
The person you thought I was at the start
But what will it take to feel free again?
Closure and renewal and me as your friend.
