Broken Things

My heart has been broken recently. There are different kinds of breaks you know, there is the piercing pain that leaves long sharp shards seeping out pain and there is sudden crushing kind that comes so suddenly you cannot breathe and you are not sure that you are even still capable of living on. Today I am shattered into the tiniest, thin pieces jagged and unable to be repaired. No amount of time or commitment will make a difference nor any fixant will be enough to hold what was once whole fast. And so I will wait here. I know that it will take time, many birthdays and Christmases will pass before the emptiness that has been left where the sureness of your love was stored. There is nothing to put in it's place. Nothing would fit, everything would be a interloper an unwelcome intruder where you once belonged. It is made all the harder that once that same shattered heart beat for the both of us, until you grew your own. I let you go, because I must. The pain is too great and time is always short. Love well and instead of being so fast to guard your own heart, protect the hearts of the ones you love. It is those that you have the power to break and not all broken things can be mended.