It's Like You Left Your Heart With Me, For Me To Love. Poem by Susan Cook

You said:
‘you will always have my heart’.

But it’s like you have really left it with me.

I feel it with me,
I feel it breath with me.

What do I want for your heart?

I will make it laugh
I will make it smile,
I will know what it needs before it has to speak.

I will heal the pain it carries,
Speak out for it when it cannot find words
and be proud for it when it is shy

I will fill it with my love
and cradle it with my tenderness
and I will keep it safe.

I will share the depths of my heart,
so they can sit together, still in time, observing the world.

These things I want for your heart.

Not to have your heart.

But to love your heart.