Love Poem: Dear Heart
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Written by: Hannah Hockaday

Dear Heart

Dear Heart,
I’d like to file a formal complaint
It seems that your an obsessive overachiever
That you take your job a little to seriously

Dear Heart,
Please stop breaking yourself into a million little pieces-
Because you fall in love with ideas and hypotheticals
Because you color people before they can show you their true aura 

Dear Heart,
Why
Why do you find every crumbling transparent excuse for the world
But somehow you make yourself bleed 
Why can’t you put up a wall against the hailing obscenities 
Why can’t you knock down that wall for a genuine whisper

Dear Heart,
You were supposed to be a road map to happiness
But it seems I’m lost somewhere between I love you and I miss you
You are supposed to find contentment in success and lessons in failures
But you grasp for the next and the regret

Dear Heart,
I know your tired and broken
But Brain is telling me to tell you to stop crying 

Dear Heart,
I’m sorry I yelled at you 
I’m sorry I thought a bandaid was enough to fix you 

Dear Heart,
I know your Shattered-
But I promise I won’t lose the pieces