August 1, 2012

her heart

I knocked on the door,

no one answered,

She said to be here by 4,

I knocked again,

nothing,

I checked, it was unlocked,

"Helen?"

I heard crying,

"where are you?"


I started feeling pain,

pain in my heart,

the closer I got, the more I felt it,

I walked in her room,

she was sitting on her bed,

surrounded by a pool of blood,

all coming from her chest.


She held her heart in her hand,

her heart was bleeding uncontrollably

she held it, it beat slowly,

her heart, was dying,

I got closer, the pain in my chest grew,

and I knew,

I was feeling her pain,  it hurt me to see her like this,

she was looking down, I touched the top of her head, gave it a kiss,

"do you trust me?"

she looked up now, red tears flowing from her eyes,

I took her heart in my hand, and it stopped bleeding, it beat normally,

she smiled, I gave it back to her, and it slowed down, and it started bleeding again,

I held out my hands and took it back, and once again the bleeding stopped, and she smiled,

"Do youyou see that? can you feel it? It's because I love you"

she said, "I love my self"

"do you?"


I gave it back, and the pain came back,

I took her hands, and together we put her heart back in her chest,

I took my heart out of my chest, and she saw it bled more than hers,

"I'm in pain"

I held it out to her, "Helen, I trust you"

I gave her my heart,

she held it, and the bleeding stopped,

love flowed through me, I smiled and tears of joy ran down my face,

"do you understand?…you are not alone"


written by: Frank Hannen-Pantaleon