Bleeding Hearts Will Blossom Thanks to You

Written for ABC Wednesday's Letter B Challenge:

Bleeding Hearts by Paul Appleton

Bleeding Hearts Will Blossom Thanks to You

Bleeding hearts will blossom thanks to you

Because of all you gave and all you withheld

You beguiled me from the beginning

And I

In return had burdened you with my belongings

Begging

For you to take me in

Under you your wing

I beckoned for you

For years

Believing that I would bump into you in happenstance

Because I deserved to

Because I deserved you

But in bestowing such an honor upon you

I built you the marble pedestal

That I in turn latch onto

Betraying my instinct to run.

Before I knew you

My boisterously beating heart befriended no one

But you built my bridges

And burned them down respectively

Leaving me effectively

Immobile

Bowing out with global

Understandings

Of our nonexistent love.

And I’ll admit

That in bending to your bidding

It was only the beginning

Of the binding of my being

Which was bursting into bits.

Beyond the bewilderment of your abandonment  

In the grasp of a bothersome body

My blistered digits will one day behold a beam of hope

That in time will breach the barriers of my skin

And bring the breath back to my lung

Blessing me for the timely revelation

That my bleeding heart has blossomed thanks to you.