for love, however painful it may be

you knocked
upon my dozing heart
only to break it apart.

steel, not wooden
were the arrows that pierced
tearing flesh

every ounce
a heartbeat skipped.
across

the sky is a canvass
of blue huing into red
the clouds precipitating into tears

upon the ground
where my heart felt
there too felt my soul

bleeding,
every drop
upon a flower felt.