Heart of Gold
This heart is made of gold
I would never hide its shine
Its beauty and luster drew you close
In your greed and lust you overreached
Recklessly mishandling it
Discarding it broken, shattered
But what you did not realize
About such a heart as mine
You cannot touch one
Without exposing your soul
And your grimy prints
will all wash away
The wounds you inflicted
will heal over one day
And I will remain still
With this heart of gold
Glorious and soft
Pure and enduring
The rarest of all treasures
Beyond your dreams
Outside your reach
Forever lost to you
About this poem
I wrote this poem after being inspired by a painting I made this summer following a particularly painful breakup. Gold, as a precious metal, will always have intrinsic value, and greedy people will always lust after it. And they will leave it perhaps a bit tarnished or broken, but it will still be beautiful and still has value.
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Written on September 24, 2023
Submitted by TheSaltySpinster on October 16, 2023
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| Words | 107 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 6, 2, 4 |
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