The Pieces.

So is this our end?"

You nodded.
I burst into tears.

You held me,
flattening me against your chest.

A crack emits from my breast.

Wordlessly I then stood up and left,
wondering as I left his warmth:
"Is this what a broken heart feels like?

This sudden incapability to breathe;
pressure so high, blood stops flowing;

 tissues ache, shattering beneath the sternum?”