A
shuddering
shivering
sniveling heart

shattered and
shunned and
scorned from the start

It
screams and it
sobs and it
shrieks in its pain

yet it
sings with its
sorrow
and
soars with its
shame

The
safety of
sadness
so
strong in its
start

Slid into a
seething and
self-killing
heart