Break My Heart
Written with the prompts: beware, you are bound for a heartache, break my heart buttercup, clutter, dancing fingers stole that away, extra spice, find one you do like, it takes money, leave home, not isolated, once you were only in my dreams, sweet, the trail wasn’t easy, wine dark sea, wind keeps blowing the sea, you might be surprised, one by one we gentled our loves to the ground, crazy stupid love
When you come to this planet
when you take this form:
beware:
you are bound for heartache.
The terrain you encounter
may seem cluttered
and everything you’ll want to do
will take money.
But you will not be isolated
you will not be helpless.
You may ask for extra spice
extra sweet
extra salty
or milky and weak
but dancing fingers
will steal it all away.
Don’t let it bother you.
Try everything until
you find one you like.
Then start again,
find two, find three,
find everything you like.
Then let it happen,
let it all break your heart.
It’s what we do here.
It’s what we come for.
The trail is not easy.
A wine dark sea will fool you.
You will be surprised because
one by one the things you love
will wrestle you to the ground.
This is crazy, you’ll say.
This is stupid.
I came for this?
This?
The wine makes everything glow,
and the wind makes every river blow,
and the rocks carry water away
from the shortest path.
So many detours.
That’s why we come.
Once this place was only in your dreams,
but you’re here now.
You left your home for this.
No one can take this feeling away from you.
Let it happen.
Go ahead.
Break my heart, Buttercup.
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