Broken

I did not want to reach this part,

To watch you turn your gaze away,

Where nothing soothes my fractured heart.

*

You sought to see me at the start,

Though I feared you could not stay,

I did not want to reach this part.

*

To me your love had tasted tart,

Used as I was to night, not day,

Where nothing soothes my fractured heart.

*

But loving you became an art.

I learnt to keep my fear at bay,

I did not want to reach this part.

*

Now you have started to depart,

Though in our bed we both still lay,

Where nothing soothes my fractured heart.

*

I tried to weave, to duck and dart,

Knowing the price I could not pay.

I did not want to reach this part,

Where nothing soothes my fractured heart.