Open Heart Surgery

I spent so much time putting you back together

just for someone to come along and rip each stitch I sewed

apart

In parts of you I had never known existed

I planted flowers where holes once were

he dug them up

the holes bigger than before

New pain has found its home

old pain resurfaced,

so I did what I know best

I grabbed my sewing kit

reached inside my chest

and began stitching you back up

In hopes that this will be the very last time I have to do so