You treasure hearts
Because they’re easy to love
As long as you keep
Living
I treasure minds
Because they change my world
Long after their hearts stop
Beating

If humans had wings
They’d still make the mistake
Of flying back to the people
Who’d cut them off

It’s a winter’s day
And the cold bites harder
Than his words
You wonder what made you
As fragile as the ice
Beneath your feet
As you, too, crack
Under the pressure
Break, when you’re
Stepped on
You try to make a snowball
With your calloused hands
But they’ve been through
Too many fights
And weapons can’t hold
Such delicate things
So you can only watch
As the water slips through
Your trembling fingers
Just as his love slips out
Of your troubled mind

Like unfinished work
My story has been left
Untold
And I struggle
As I have to decide
Between rereading
The pages of my past
And mourning
What could have been
Or picking up a pen
And writing a new book.