Love Poem: Fissure
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Written by: Edward Ibeh

Fissure

she reluctantly...
   dismantles her walls 
      and let's love in 
           long after 
      the first perfidy, 
   only to be struck by 
yet another thunderbolt 
          of betrayal. 
           her heart 
       splinters in half 
 and hardens to granite;
     cold to the touch! 
 impregnable barricade 
    now wraps around
  a heart once inviting 
  with "stay away" sign
          posted on it. 
      beset by cynicism 
    and lingering distrust. 
    an irreparable fissure. 



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Date written: 02/26/2022