Challenge
When was the first time that you broke your own heart? Heartbreak is always described as romantic but, for most people, their first heartbreak was delivered by their own wrath. Your work can come in any format (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, story, prose, etc.) The submission will be evaluated heavily on your ability to move the reader and make them really feel with you.
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Heartbreak By My Own Hand
It’s entirely true
That when I was a young girl,
I broke my heart,
Shattering it in two
As a child,
There was little strife in my life
And no reason for me
To ever believe otherwise
I was naive, sheltered
From the cruel truths of the world
My only undoing was growing up,
Becoming older
If that hadn’t happened,
I never would’ve known
The lies strewn about
In my own life,
The impurities of a world unknown
It was learning that truth
That pierced my soul
For the first time,
I suddenly knew
The world I’d known
Was merely a scathing amalgamation
Of evil, ruthless lies, resounding cries
And with this new knowledge,
I broke my own heart,
Shattering it in two
The pieces, rough, jagged
Would never fully come back together