Shatterproof

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(Originally posted here February 2014)
 

water and blood turn to glass in your hand
yet your brittle heart tends to endure
in its loneliness trapped as it is in a matrix
of bitter ice formed before time from congenital
tears shed while still in a cold callous womb
that resented you even before you were named

what you need most of all is to sit by the fire
thaw your mind in the presence of someone
with free flowing veins and a genuine passion
that sooner or later will teach you that you
too deserve to be loved but some caution
once loved you’ll no longer be shatterproof