by Melissa Rathbun

Created on: February 02, 2007   Last Updated: May 14, 2007

If I place my heart in your hand,
Will you keep it safe for me?
Will you cherish, love and protect it and treat it compassionately?
I trusted it with anothers keep, once a long time ago.
He mishandled it, dropped and broke it,
fortunately not irreparably so.
I picked it up and took it home and hid it for a while.
It was damaged, nearly destroyed, very sensitive and fragile.
I was able to put it back together and it has never been the same.
It's hard to trust to anyone who plays an unfair game.
Its way to delicate to be mistreated, or tossed to and fro,
and until I meet that special someone I am afraid to let it go.
I know that it is now possible to expose it again to love,
If the person I entrust it with treats it gently like a dove.
Although it appears the same as all others,
My heart is from a special lot,
It may not seem distinctive to you but It's the only one I've got.
My time will come, as all good things usually do,
Because that will be the moment that I give my heart to you.

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