How many aching times?
How many pieces can be lost
Before I finally die?
How many ways can you hurt me
How much can I endure?
How many promises must you break
Before I trust no more?
My heart I gave so willingly
So pure and so complete
Entrusted to your loving care
So strong and yet so sweet
I gave of myself everything
I ever had to give you
I surrendered to you all I wsa
My only wish to love you
I trusted you, believed in you
In sweet, sweet words you said
I gave myself, my very soul
My innocence I shed
You told me that you loved me
You promised me you'd stay
You swore to care for and protect me
Until your dying day
But then arose the enemy
You gave me up, a ransomed prize
You could not protect me from
Your own weakness and your lies
So how many ways can my heart break
How many shattered shards
Can it be broken into
Before I have no heart?
How many tiny trivial ways
Can you hurt me and abuse me
For though you do not lift a hand
You break me and you bruise me
Shattered, beaten, stomped upon
Cut apart, torn open
Pierced with arrows, sliced by swords
So many ways I'm broken
A thousand ways you break my heart
A thousand ways you hurt me
In painful sorrow I must live on
For you, my hero, failed me
Heather Dawn Morrison