Afraid

O my little heart,
Why don’t I hear you beating?
Wondering if You and I,
could set up a quick meeting.

Nay, Let me be hidden here,
Away from the sight of the world,
Don’t know whom to trust,
There ain’t any without a twisted word.

Those aching words of my heart,
Broke me further in pieces so little.
Always ready for the world ahead,
It wasn’t so strong, just so brittle.

In the faint thumping of my heart,
Silent sobbing I often hear,
Visiting its scars of betrayal and deceit,
I feel the pai...