The first person who broke my heart
\nis no different than the second,
\nis no different than the last.<\/p>\n
They are part of every poem,
\nand the little bone-holes from the gnawing.<\/p>\n
They are the missing skin.<\/p>\n
And the place where it healed.<\/p>\n
Thick white lines that said goodbye to people.<\/p>\n
They are prongs of the forks I climbed like ladders to get out of the places
\nthat they dropped my body.<\/p>\n
I only loved one idea wholly,
\nit just had many faces.<\/p>\n
When the rubber peeled around the edges and my lovers faded into flaws,<\/p>\n
I said goodbye with blood.<\/p>\n
But my last goodbye – was all of it.<\/p>\n
I took all of my blood with me.<\/p>\n
And I stepped on them all on my way out.<\/p>\n
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Prompt was to write about the first person that broke your heart…<\/p>\n
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