When you break my heart.
If you break my heart.

Please do it kindly.

Wrap it gently in something soft. Something soft like your sweater. And give my heart back to me.

I’ll let you keep a few pieces. Because they’re yours, and I won’t ask what you will do with them.

But break me quickly, simply, honestly.
Break me so I won’t shatter like glass. So that even when I no longer love you. I will love you for at least doing me this.

If you can’t promise me a forever. I won’t hold it against you. Time is not always kind, and I can’t expect it to be on our side.
But promise me you will try. Try to be on my side. Just on this.

So that I know, that even if this is no longer the case,
Once-upon-a-time ago, you really did love me.