Where Do Broken Hearts Go? Poem by Kenneth Maswabi

Bleeding hearts
Broken vessels of love
Traumatized by the departed love
Severely wounded and alone
The pain unbearable

Punctured and ailing hearts
Are washed with tears
Sewn together in private
Uncertainty galore
The heart is nursed in ICU
The absence of love unbearable

Days pass, sometimes months
The heart wrapped in a blanket of pain
Feverish and in isolation
The ailing heart severely malnourished
With no love appetite
The hollow heart lying in ruins

Hope emerges from the shadows
Bring life to the dying heart
Re-energizing the empty heart
The vessel of love is molded afresh
A strong heart emerges from the ashes