Heartache?

(I was told and encouraged about a writing Competition in college, and I have been asked by several members of staff who know me in the college (Angela, Carolyn and Mirian) to enter something.  In fact several pieces. And well this is one of my enteries!)

Heartache?

Why is it called heartache?
When the pain is in your stomach.
Sitting on your windpipe
Making each breathe wince.

Your heart is fine
It's the rest of you that isn't.
Small daggers constantly reminding you
Just in case you forget.

Between thoughts and your surrounding
It swings from vein to vein.
Slowly numbing you
With shards of ice.

Heartache you say?
No the heart is fine.
It's your feelings that take the damage
Shattering your confidence.
Making you even more broken...

Heartache?

Monday, 22 February 2016

Heartbreak Home

Do you ever hear something, or be told something and it ruins you? It confirms a suspicion and breaks your heart into pieces. You can barely breathe as if the very life has been sucked out of you. You run to escape and it's almost like your legs have given up on you. You fight back the tears even though there's no reason left to fight. You become weak, and the walls you built have smashed right before your eyes. You've got to act like you're okay but you're anything but. You're shaking and every word you type you have to correct, it's like the love inside of you has been pushed out of you. The person you devoted yourself to dotes on someone else. It's heartbreak when it happens once, but it's like home when it continues to happen. A familiar lonely home that you're more than used to, the closer you get to home the numbing begins and it usually stays...

Heartbreak Home

Saturday, 30 January 2016