Give Back My Heart Poem by Aimee Rozen

Someone is clutching my heart
squeezing ever more tightly
I scream in pain
tears streaming down my face.
Get your hand out of my chest!
Please let it go...
let me be in peace...

Though you pulled your hand away
you took with it my heart
And I mourn the death of you
with tearless cries of angst
and screams of endless fury
I saw your body lying there.
Just lying there.
Motionless.
And you reached into my chest
and took my heart with you as you went.

Please let go!
Please give it back!
I can't manage without it,
therefore, without you.
I could have been so much more
...but this pain...
what does one do with it?
How does one live without a beating heart?

You let go, maybe, for now
but, for how long will it last?
I found someone to heal my wounds
but will he, like you, create more?
He revived my still heart;
it's beating once again; so very hard,
I'm afraid it will burst through my chest.
It's just too much; too overwhelming!
Please take my heart back and protect it.