Your heart has always had a murmur.
I have heard it whisper to me in the night,
“I love you I love you I love you.”
Though I only had a silent heart,
I would hold you close and whisper back the same.
Now the murmur has become so loud
That I can hear it, hear it even over my tears,
Its message never changing.
I hold you close and whisper back the same,
Now adding some words of my own.
“You can go you can go you can go.”
My heart is no longer silent. My heart is breaking.
Take the pieces when you depart.
Without you, I’ve no need of this heart.
The memory of your love will fill the heart-shaped emptiness,
Not quite a heart but far better than the mere organ,
All that I had before I loved you.
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