A First Aid Kit For A Broken Heart Poem by Guinevere Eveleigh

How do you fix a broken heart?
With string or tape
Or glue and cellophane
Do you wrap it in bubble paper?
Or rest it on a pillow tissues ripped into slithers
Do you pick up the shards with you soft skin fingers?
Or with perfect little dainty tweezers
Do you sweep them up with a broom?
Or Hoover them up with the tube
I suppose the best place for the ruined piece is within the bin
But you have thought carelessly my friend
You can't fix a broken heart with string or tape
Or glue and cellophane
The best thing to do is to nurture it well
Within a box of feathers and nurturing care
And wait for months and months for every little piece
To fix themselves together as if by magic
But yet not everything turns out so perfect
For even though it beats and gleams with prosperity of health
Still with the smooth surface you will find the little crack
Of the once long ago despair that took place within the little hearts nest
Look away! Look away!
Smash the mirror that reflects the grey
Pick up the light hammer of hope and faith
And flung it in the false ugliness