The Breaking Heart (Poem)

[Iola Silverdragon]

The Breaking Heart

Have you heard the sound
A breaking heart makes
Does it pop like bubblegum
Or squeal like brakes

Does it roll like thunder
Or smash like glass
Does it crash like lightning
Or hiss like gas

Does it creak like wood
Or slam like a door
Does it thud like a stone
On a concrete floor

A heart big as mine
You'd think it would scream
Like a soul in torment
Ripped at the seam

But I heard the sound
Of a breaking heart
I heard when it happened
I was listening hard

I shut myself off
From the world outside
Turned myself inwards
And heard as it died

The sound made me cry
And the tears they did fall
For, when I heard my heart break
I heard nothing at all

Iola SilverDragon

[Kat Lady]

How sad and how true! But the mending heart has a joyous sound!

[Iola Silverdragon]

How sad and how true! But the mending heart has a joyous sound!

hmmm... yes.. lots of giggling involved there, I should think.

Perhaps that should be my sequel.

I know it seemed a little sad for an Eisteddfod competition entry but I feel that sorrow is as great an inspiration for the arts, as love. How could we appreciate the heights to which we can fly if we haven't experienced the depths from which to rise?!

[Branbeith]

Loved the imagry. Wonderfully written!