Your twisted intentions shatter

Against my callused veins

And brick laid chambers

blood should soften, my granite core,

but minerals leach in steady rhythm

and toxicity is incurable, I am the source.

An empty cell

Echoing memories

Love fossilized

My heart a stain upon the street

Crushed beneath your hard cruel feet

I pray for gentle rain to wash away my pain

It's exhausting to remain reliable 

With a mind like a freeway

And a heart like a brick

gravel, stone, tar, bone-

All are softer than the

soul i own 

soft words warm breath

gentle touch sweet caress

hardened heart forever free 

Remember when I gave you my heart? You dropped it.

On the cold cement floor, considering your other options.

Retrieve it, now flinty and hardened. How dare you ask what's wrong.

he once poured cement

into the cracks of my crumbling character,

but it never cured.

Born from a faulty cast

It cracks and crumbles

Until time has claimed its toll