POETRY - HEARTS ACHE

Hearts Ache

because you can't cut out the

pain of another's heart...

I've never attended a

Bitchelor Party in my life;

I guess that's obvious.

My daddy told me once

nice people get walked on...

hell! I think someone is

actually wiping their dirty feet on me!

Anyway, I would have hung myself

From my shower curtain before—

Okay, let me say this:

I'd rather lay a bet on

Charlie Sheen leading a

Sunday School class

than wager attendees at such a

soiree would be up to any good.

What?

Sarcastic? Irreverent?

Me?

Surely you do not expect me to

surpass my capacity for responsibility,

a responsibility that is to myself first

and to my loved ones second...

maybe there's no responsibility to the second.

Let me cut off this sleeve because

this is not about me but

those whose hearts have a hole

smack dab in the center and who

find enjoyment...laughter...

at the expense of others—

talking about and laughing at

a person behind her / his back

while everywhere love is breathing

heavily like a draft at their doors.

Agony grows up like a cancer

from their hearts to their brains

and the wearers throw out daggers

to arrest the victim with

their disease of aching hearts.

Honestly, don't you just

want to give them your best

Nanny-Nanny-Boo-Boo face?

Childish? Okay, but I certainly

feel their childish actions

deserve equal immature reactions.

©Mimi Wolske, March 2014

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