Badges Of Love Poem by Paul Larmour

Your tears on my jacket
I wear as badges of lost love

The splinters from your broken heart
Are stuck under my skin

The curses you swore
Are an encore to our love

The heart i wear on my sleeve
Seems to be bumped and bruised
By everyone i meet

But your tears will dry to salt
And i'll brush them off

The splinters will turn to dust
And i'll shed this skin

The curses will turn to sighs
And be lost in the wind

And my heart will finally
Be in the right place