What happens when your heart breaks

Does it feel as if someone has reached into your chest and physically ripped it apart

Or is it a growing emptiness

Like there is a hole where there should be an organ of flesh and blood

It aches, it is a dull ache

You try to fill it with every distraction known to woman and man

You drown your sorrows

You laugh and pretend everything is ok

Because if you acknowledge it isn’t

That measly glue you put on your heart will start to melt away

What was holding you together doesn’t work anymore

The hole is getting bigger and bigger

The chest is aching and aching

Until you are just numb

Nothing truly brings you joy or sorrow

You have no reason to be in the world

And try as hard as you might you can't find it

We, humans, have lost it long ago

We believe we only live once

But can we even call this living

We throw ourselves into meaningless fleeting pursuits

And when that temporary high is gone

And that ache starts to come back

We throw ourselves into the next one and the next

Trying to find something to fix that hole in our hearts