Love has burned a hole in my chest

It began as a cold spot,
a frozen space deep within
that had been abandoned and ignored

and so

it built a wall of ice
around
its self

in the hopes that no one.
would ever.
get.
in.

and yet
the heart knows
what the heart wants

so much more so than you or I

Love has burned a hole in my chest

What was once a speck
was fanned and grew, and
learned to breathe near you

and then

these walls of ice that were
so real
so. very real.

all went melting away from me
before I knew it
before the count of ten

and before I was ready

Love has burned a hole in my chest

and the firecracker fuse of my fear
was LIT

and before I could stop it
the explosion split

IN | | TWO

and yet everything moved
in such s l o w m o t i o n

I wasn’t actually sure
if anything had changed

at all

Love has burned a hole in my chest

but then there was smoke
and you stuffed the last tiny strand
of kindling
in the shape of my heart
just as the entire mass

ERUPTED

into conflagration

and I panicked as I wept
but you laid in the rubble
next to me

you held me
when I needed held

and you let me go
when I needed let go

Love has burned a hole in my chest

There is no ice left
and that is how I know