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I Carry Your Heart

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Before you left you said your heart was mine to keep.

I promise to look after it for you until you get back, I amended, and that's when you swore that you wouldstillalways [never say that you didn't] love me.

And I always trusted you['d come back to me].

I carried your heart close to my own, hopingsecretly to keep it [safe, to keep it whole,] forever.

You always had so much heart. A vibrance. A wildness. I love[d that about] you. I hated to think that a uniform and a rifle could crush that out of you.

I hate that somebody tried.

And I hate that they might have succeeded, too.

Because I was right to trust you in some ways, I guess. You came back long enough to say goodbye. And you [never] told me you [didn't] loved me. You merely asked me to hate you, instead.

Maybe it was in that moment when you hung up the phone, I [could barely hear the click as your line, crackling with static,] went dead. And when I looked for your heart next to mine, I couldn't find it anymore.

You'd taken it back, I suppose. Plucked it from my chest and maybe mine along with it.

I [tried to] carry your heart.

[Maybe that's why] I feel [so] empty.
I carry your heart
[I carry it in my heart]

- E. E. Cummings
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Rosaleen94's avatar
This is so beautiful.