A Heart Wasted

This fragile heart withholds itself -

It never completely surrenders.

The icy fear of rejection

And searing pain is what hinders.

What once was always expanding,

Has become hardened and scarred.

Those abusive years took it's toll -

That perfect beauty now marred.

It didn't happen overnight -

Took half my life to do it.

I wish I could go back in time,

Change my beliefs and redo it.

But choices made can't be undone,

Nor lies I once believed as truth.

The mold has set, the die is cast,

Can only chalk it up to youth.










copyright Linda Whitehead Humbert 4/26/2014
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