let the heartbreak break you,
not in fragments,
but utterly and entirely.

feel it claw at your insides,
drag you down into the dirt
where the world quiets
and sits
almost cruelly still.

let it strip you to the bone,
leave you gasping in the dark
because only there,
in that hollow ruin
will you finally meet yourself.

not polished, not whole
but aware of who you are.
and when you crawl out
dirty, scarred and breathing,
you’ll know the pain didn’t
destroy you.

it carved you into something
something that can never be broken
in the same way
again.