Disconnection

A lover's soul, in trauma from rejection
may attempt eternal self-protection
by erecting walls and barring doors
a fortress-heart, defended from all wars.
As if a sooty petrel were to soar
in fruitless search for stormless ocean shore
and never nest. The price? A disconnection,
loss of warmth, a blurring of direction.

The world retreats behind a windowpane,
a sheet of isolation, lonely-glass
and shutters made of self-indulgent pain
through which no human word or touch can pass.
The catch is jammed, the hinge too stiff to open.
To save a heart, the window must be broken.

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