'How Do I Gaurd My Heart? ' Poem by Linda Winchell

How do I gaurd my heart
when the arrow already struck its mark?
Piercing the one who loved you so
directly in their heart.

Draining their life within every beat
that it beat and pumped for you.
Placing nothing but sadness
where there was, the deepest of Loves blood so true.

How do I guard my heart now?
From the hurt it might feel again?
How do I let another love me?
love this now barred gaurded heart again?