Broken Heart

 

She wore her heart on the outside.

Never easy to protect.

Such a fragile, exposed target.

Tears, always ready to reflect.

 

Bad boys were her youthful downfall.

Lessons she never learned.

Led astray by furtive lies,

Her fingers often burned.

 

She pulled deadweights behind her,

Broken promises too hard to bear.

Expectation turned to sunken hope,

As real love was never there.

 

Men in her world took advantage,

Their traits she saw as true.

Victim of an underworld,

Wore badges, coloured black and blue.

 

They found her in the local park,

Floating in the lake.

Drowning was the official cause,

But her heart did finally break.