The Longing Heart

Can it be revived?

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The longing heart
It longs for comfort
It longs for company
It longs for presence 
The one to call its own

A longing heart
It seeks filling 
It seeks nourishing 
It seeks cherishing 
It wants to be delighted 

A needy heart 
It’s ready to give
Pour itself out
For the one that it tells itself 
Belongs to him

A surviving heart 
It’s just existing 
Making ends meet
Rather unpleasantly
But beat

A begging heart
It’s ready to bow down 
To any insult
Humiliation
Just in exchange for presence

A pitiful heart
It’s dying inside
It’s broken again 
With vain attempts 

Why does the heart long so much
For the one who doesn’t care for it?
Because it stays in the past 
When time stopped in its tracks 
And the world stopped moving around it
The only action that happened 
Was what happened within it

The longing heart
Stays vigilant 
Waiting in vain
For as long as it can
For the one who came 
And took it away with him
Waiting endlessly in pain 
Will he ever come back again?

And perhaps he will 
When he’s grabbing on to guard rails
And helping himself up 
With a walking stick 

Does the longing heart
Want to wait so long for him?
Or can it find a space 
To heal itself 
Apply bandage 
And learn 
To love once again 
Step by step 
Like a baby learns to get up every time 
And walk again 
Until it succeeds 

Think about this
Peace ✌🏽 

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