I Fixed Your Broken Heart

I heard I broke your heart

So I made you a new one

I knitted its veins together

So you’d have a sweater inside your soul

Used guitar strings as sinews

So you could strum along to your own beat

Its lock has multiple holes

So even if you gave away its key

You could still let someone in

I paved a few yellow bricked roads

So it would be easy to follow

Carved some ears so it could listen

Pushed in pens so it could speak

All my pennies were deposited inside its chambers

So you’d be familiar with having a change in it

I took away the blinds so it’d be too afraid to carry secrets

Fed it broccoli so it could grow big and strong

Instead of blood

I filled it with music

Replaced the plasma with streams of consciousness

Poured in laundry detergent

So its motives would be clean

I attached a parachute so it wouldn’t be afraid of falling for something

I lined your heart with garbage bags so it could be hefty strong

Inserted happy meals so you’d be lovin’ it

Within it lies a Harvard diploma to convince you it’s smart

But a degree in meteorology

So it could weather any storm

Inside I stuffed a caterpillar nest

So one day

It’ll be overwhelmed with butterflies

Soaring recklessly through its ventricles

I plastered its walls with dictionary pages

In case it needs to redefine itself

And scarlet pens so it could be rewritten

I’m sorry I broke it before

Shattered it like a mirror that displayed

A reflection I couldn’t bear to face

But maybe this one is better

Maybe, just maybe

this one could love me.