Can you hear me
Through fractured walls
Listen
To a paper heart?
Tattered and frayed
Spotty and dirty
It's corners curling around the edges
On which only a few words remain
Scribbled
Illegibly
The few words that once were
Now cease to be

Hear it crackle and crumble,
Near a fireplace
Watch it ebb and glow
With ungratifying distaste
For what once was
Cease to be
My heart cannot belong to thee
It can only belong
To me

Not in this ages
Not in this crime
It makes for layered cages
One at a time
Hear me again
Listen to my plea
You won't see me again
Not before I bleed