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love_soph in Poetry & Free Verse

rip and run

the thief is breaking in & stealing

I'm at gunpoint

he wants one thing that used to be yours

I had already thrown away everything

trying to rid myself of you—it did not work

but my heart!

my heart used to be yours!

so I rip my heart out (like you did months ago)

and give it to the thief, dripping