A Fragile Heart

If I give my heart to you
Will you keep it safe for me
Will you love and protect it
The way it ought to be?

I trusted another with it
It was some time ago
It was dropped and broken
Almost irreparably so...

I took it home and put it away
There I left it for a while
I look at it now and then
I wish that I could smile...

I put it back together
But it will never be the same
I won't trust it with anyone
Who thinks love is just a game...

It looks like all the others
But it's from a special lot
It may not look like much to you
But it's the only one I got

(Dec 2004)