How to Crush a Heart

Let loose all your bridled

Rage

Allow vengeance to

Exact its toll

Sightlessly take aim

Smash into my heart

Bullet and bat

A mirrorball piñata

Filled with sanguine

Works of abstract art

Tip shattered

Shards scattered

Through veins shorn apart

Let the shards fly free

Red shining debris

Pouring from my veins

Tears slicking

The recently waxed floor

Dance among the

Shocking wreckage

Sliding on fragments of my

Once shining soul

Take a broomstick

Vault the crime scene

Threatening tender soles

Savagely twinkling

Glassily tinkling

Beat it before my

Cardiac attack

Can be reported

Or avenged

I will wait for the empty

Suits to arrive

Reassemble what is left

Jagged edges stitched

New seams sewn

Throughout deadened flesh

Shredded and abandoned

Left to grieve in peace

Before you drive me

Into the pavement

Once again

K.B. Silver

Narcissistic abuse is quietly destroying lives behind closed doors. Love is not found in an abusive relationship. Unfortunately, the specific strategy of love bombing and withholding affection is hard to detect at first, and if you grew up in a home with a parent who behaves this way, it can be even harder to break free from. Real love lifts all parties up; it doesn't grind one down for the other's ego.

" 4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous. It does not brag, does not get puffed up, 5  does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. 6  It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. 7  It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." 1Corinthians 13:4-7